SIR - Your report on the problems at Manywells is disturbing but not surprising. Most of us don't worry much about landfill sites because, unlike the long-suffering residents of Cullingworth, they are not in our backyards.

But we are all responsible for filling them up, so if we want fewer of them, we all need to reduce our rubbish. Here are some suggestions:

l Try not to produce waste in the first place.

l Buy products with as little packaging as possible.

l Only buy things you need - don't buy just for the sake of it.

l Avoid bulky disposable products like nappies (ring the Bradford Real Nappy Network on 583364 if you need help).

l Try to re-use things.

l Make places for scrap paper, bubble pack, pots etc so that they can be easily put away and re-used.

l Use your ingenuity to find alternative uses. If things can't be re-used, recycle.

l Put a storage basket near the kitchen sink so that it is handy.

l Empty the basket weekly to prevent build-up.

It takes a bit of effort, but makes a big difference. We have reduced our rubbish from five ASDA bags a week to two ASDA bags.

Mrs E Milwain, Bankfield Drive, Shipley.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Do you have any tips on how to reduce rubbish that you'd like to pass on? If so, please let us know.

SIR - In view of all the horror stories regarding hospitals, can I reassure the people of Bradford how lucky they are to have the BRI and St Luke's. My brother spent ten days in Ward 19 BRI and still is receiving outpatients care.

The expertise of all the staff there, whether surgeons, doctors, nurses and cleaners, not forgetting the appetising meals, was wonderful. He and the rest of his family cannot thank them all enough.

Vera Williams, Toller Lane, Bradford 9.

SIR - Working in Leeds, I rarely visit Bradford city centre. However, I had cause to visit over Christmas and got the fright of my life when I went past the new Cineworld and Hollywood Bowl.

At best, this complex can only be described as an ugly, yet functional steel-clad box, more suited to an out-of-town retail park. Just what possessed the architects and town planners when they designed and passed this monstrosity is beyond me.

For such an important gateway to our ailing city, could they not have come up with something more aesthetically pleasing?

Judging by this pathetic attempt at urban rejuvenation, I fear that the Odeon and Forster Square sites will receive the same treatment. Thus, Bradford will be consigned to another generation of building nightmares or at least until they realise what mistakes they were and rip them down and replace with other cheap, ugly buildings.

David Kirby, Parry Close, Harden.

SIR - I was disgusted to read your story about Bradford businesses accepting the euro. It is, after all, foreign currency and hopefully will remain so.

If I had known that I could have breakfast in Bingley with my pesetas, buy a trinket at Salts Mill with my lira and have lunch at the Bankfield with my deutchmarks and then gone to the Imax with my francs, the charity I gave my leftover currency to would be all the poorer.

J M Ingham, Hazelhurst Brow, Bradford 9.

SIR - Surely the second user of the redeveloped Odsal Stadium should be Bradford (Park Avenue) Football Club. The new stadium should be for the benefit of the people of Bradford.

If Bradford (Park Avenue) FC were to use the new Odsal, the club would be able to pursue its aim of gaining promotion to the Nationwide Conference with subsequent bigger crowds and increased sponsorship.

S Brook, Middlebrook Crescent, Bradford 8.

SIR - What wasted space and time used by our media regarding the Blairs and MMR.

Some years ago when the whooping cough vaccine was in the news, we took notice of our GPs and were not the least bit interested in our MPs' children.

I'm afraid this is another case of newspaper-generated irrelevance.

F Dickinson, Larkfield Road, Rawden.