By the Rev Norman Daniels, vicar of Keighley parish Church: I'm sure that every right- minded and right thinking person in this country must have been sickened to hear that 58 people had suffocated when customs officers inspected the lorry that was carrying them

illegally into this country.

The manner of their passing is too horrific to contemplate and our hearts go out to their relatives and to the emergency services whose task must have been so terribly gruesome to perform.

What I find so depressing about the whole episode is the terrible light it throws on what human beings are prepared to do for money.

It seems that the 'Snakehead' gangs that organise this traffic are netting thousands of pounds per person.

And it would seem that human misery or the loss of human life is just not a consideration as long as there is money to be made.

It would seem, also, that in our increasingly secular and materialistic society, many have lost or ignored or forgotten or don't care that human beings are of unique importance because they are made in the image of God and they are people for whom Our Lord died.

No wonder that St Paul, in his wisdom, identified love of money as the root of all evil.

Never, in human history, can these words have been more true.

To the cynical and ruthless people who are growing rich on the misery and suffering of their fellow beings I would say merely this.

I would like them to consider two questions that Jesus posted in the Gospels:

"What can it profit a man if he were to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"

"And, what can a man give in exchange for his soul?"

Perhaps those who push illegal substances so ruthlessly in this town would like to ask themselves the same questions?