SIR - We are not only deaf and daft but callous as well.

It is not surprising that global carbon dioxide emissions are rising by three per cent a year when those who should know better behave so selfishly.

The price of trebling flights from Yeadon by 2030, as outlined in the airport master plan, is more deaths in the developing world and a frightening future for our grandchildren.

I have little confidence that the income from the sale will be spent on public transport but that is the least we should expect.

Keith Thomson, Heights Lane, Bradford