SIR – How many ghosts will be now wringing their hands and wailing ‘Pity Poor Bradford’?

This is due to a planned protest this afternoon in Bradford’s Centenary Square against an obscure film that 99.9 per cent of the population would never have heard of, let alone have watched, unless it had been brought to our attention.

This protest is planned for this afternoon (the second Friday afternoon protest in recent weeks) for around 3.30pm, and 2,000-plus are expected to attend.

Are we not supposed to be trying to promote Bradford? I was going to pick up my girlfriend who works in Bradford city centre and we had planned to go and see a proud Bradfordian who is now a world famous illusionist called Dynamo, who is pleased to be promoting his new book at Bradford’s Waterstones bookstore.

We were then going to have a drink and a bite to eat. Along with lots of other visitors and workers, including other members of my family who have to travel through Bradford city centre on their way home from work, we are all now totally disrupted.

Why should this be and what are the overall costs of this protest to the city?

If there must be a protest, then why not on a Sunday?

M Wild, Thornton Road, Bradford