SIR – With regards to petition calls for a new council to cover the Bingley district and Bradford ‘is not interested in our town’ is of course not true as the whole discussion is taking place in the Telegraph & Argus which acts as a voice for the whole of T&A land, one of the finest areas in the whole of the north of England.

It is paramount the whole area should stick together and challenge the notion that it should be taken over from outside and seen as just another part of somewhere else which historically it never has been and hopefully never will be.

It is worth reading the last few paragraphs of the story of Bradford by Alan Hall of Bradford Civic Society under ‘the future’ of this great area.

Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire