SIR – As an elected district councillor I get contacted by many people and with different concerns. I was recently contacted regarding dog mess.

My colleagues Rebecca Poulsen and Glen Miller have recently been working on this problem and I can only assume that is the reason for someone contacting me from a different area.

Because of this contact, I recently made a visit to The Tarn, a lovely picturesque location with a problem with dog mess.

I must admit it wasn’t as bad as I thought it might be, but what did surprise me was the mess left by two-legged pests.

An assortment of beer cans and bottles, empty cigarette packets, paper wrappers and plastic bags in abundance, even down to red plastic cups.

Come on, people, dogs are doing what is natural, you as responsible owners can pick it up. But the litter, that is another thing, no excuses.

I will be contacting the Council’s new uniformed enforcement team requesting some vigilance at this location for dog fouling and, as such, I am sure they can issue more fixed penalties than last year.

Councillor Russell Brown, New Street, Dockroyd Lane, Oakworth