SIR - I rather think those champions of the environment, the T&A, Keith Thomson, the Green party, Ken Livingston, David Cameron and George Brown have missed a real trick.

What is the most sensible and practical way of taking hundreds of thousands of cars off our roads, thus saving valuable resources, unclogging the roads, reducing the greenhouse effect and unburdening the NHS?

The answer is staring them in the face - take all the illegal cars off the road.

If Bradford is in any way representative of England as a whole, with its shameful statistic of 57 per cent uninsured drivers, we could revolutionise the roads and our environment.

Okay, we've got few traffic cops to administer it, but we keep boasting about the technology, so I suggest we should use it.

And while, we are at it, let's dish out a few bans to the idiots who use their mobiles when driving. I know it's a mammoth task - but just think of the benefits, it will be like driving back in the Thirties.

But we all know that it will never happen when Mr Brown is so fond of his stealth taxes, and with less petrol sold, how will he finance his needless Iraq war?

T Williams, Park Road, Bingley