THE swifts will be back in Keighley all the way from Africa on about May 5.

I am looking forward to watching their dazzling flying displays. They come to Keighley each year because of the long daylight hours during May, June and July and the abundance of flying insects that gather in the deep dale. They breed and feed their young before flying back to Africa in late July/early August.

Now, there are plans for an incinerator plant in the middle of this fertile countryside. This would surely be the end of the flying insects and of nature as we know it in the Aire Valley.

The company that wants to build the plant and its supporters, who include Kris Hopkins, obviously don’t care about the local environment or the wildlife that depends on it.

Mr Hopkins seems to jump on any bandwagon he thinks will enhance his political career.

His support for the incineration plant seems the most crass decision he has made and one that clearly shows he is unfit to be our MP.

We should not allow the incineration plant and we should not vote for Mr Hopkins.

DAVID LAMBERT Devonshire Street, Keighley