A Bingley campaign group which feared it would fold was granted a stay of execution at an extraordinary general meet-ing last night.Members feared the Better Bingley Campaign would close because no-one was prepared to support it.But al-though the majority of the nine members at the poorly-attended meeting voted to dissolve the lobbying group, it was discov-ered it could not be disbanded because less than 75 per cent of members present supported the proposal.Three of the mem-bers abstained from voting. No-one voted against the proposal to disband Better Bing-ley.Acting chairman Keith Yardley, who along with secre-tary Donald Wood decided not to stand for re-election in January after years of service, adjourned the meeting.He said that the voting figure needed to pass the proposal to dissolve Better Bingley was set in the group's constitution, which was written when it formed in 1991.During the meeting at Bingley Town Hall, Councillor Colin Gill (Con, Bingley) urged members to vote to keep the group alive and said it was im-portant to the town because "it didn't have a political axe to grind".He said: "These are very exciting times for Bingley. This group is one of the best forums possible to come and listen to people who know the most about the town and what it needs."But Mr Yardley said the group, which was set up as a lobbying group to campaign for the start of the relief road and the redevelopment of the town centre, had gone as far as it could.He said the lack of sup-port from the group's existing members and failure to attract new members was a long-term problem and not something which had started in the past few months.Mr Wood said: "We need younger people and it's time we got some younger peo-ple involved."But getting younger people to come in and do things is almost impossible these days."Bill Oxley said he would consider standing as chairman at the next meeting of the group, to be held on May 26.The group decided to con-tinue to produce leaflets about the Bingley Heritage Trail.