SIR - Might I ask Jack MacPherson (T&A, November 20) what Bradford was like 20 years ago, when, according to him, Leeds was a dump and why Bradford has not changed the same over this period?

As long as I can remember, and this goes back 50 years, Bradford has always trailed behind our neighbours, so why is he so confident about Bradford's future?

And since when has Little Germany been part of the city centre?

Philip Bird, Nab Wood Terrace, Shipley