WITH its first anniversary looming large next month, the T&A's Stop The Danger Drivers campaign received another significant boost when Bradford Council officially endorsed it.

The campaign has already won the backing of West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Mark Burns-Williamson, leading road safety charities, families left bereaved by road tragedies, and senior Government minister Chris Grayling and, importantly, you our readers.

Furthermore, police in Bradford started Operation Steerside on the back of it, an ongoing operation which has so far resulted in more than 5,000 drivers being stopped across the district for all manner of offences.

While these are all positive developments, there is lots more to do, particularly where legislation is concerned.

Councillor Dale Smith is right when he states that tougher sentences are needed as a deterrent for danger drivers, although his suggested law changes differ in part to ours.

And the fact that a meeting of full Council saw fit to back the campaign shows that the political will exists, across parties, to rid our roads of motoring menaces.

But now there is a clear need to raise the profile of the campaign at national level and to see it discussed in the corridors of power at Westminster.

In that sense, our MPs have a major part to play in taking Bradford’s message to the law-makers of the land.

With so many reading from the same script, a campaign that has already had seen much success in its first year has the potential to have an even greater impact in its second.