A former Keighley councillor has received a police warning in a dispute with Keighley Town Council.

Brian Morris, the former chairman of the town council’s allotments and landscapes committee, confirmed he received visits from a police sergeant at his home earlier this year.

But he said he was not charged with anything.

“I thought it was a joke and a waste of police time,” he said.

Keighley town clerk Miggy Bailey said she and her colleagues took action after receiving “unacceptable” e-mails from Mr Morris.

“I’m not prepared to put up with insulting e-mails and intemperate ravings,” she said.

Mr Morris announced his resignation from the town council in October last year.

Minutes from the council management and staffing committee meeting, in November, reveal police were approached after e-mails and letters were sent by Mr Morris to the council’s office in the town hall.

The same minutes also accuse Mr Morris of removing documents from the allotments section of the council’s website.

Speaking this week, Mr Morris said a police sergeant visited him at his home. She told him the town council had complained about an e-mail he had sent to its office.

“The police sergeant told me to ‘be careful’, that was all,” he said. She visited me again a few days later saying there was also a complaint that I’d removed material from the council’s website. I told her ‘yes I did’. “But then I’d removed this material while I was still a town councillor and it was all stuff I’d written and collated myself. So I was perfectly entitled to take it down. This is using the police for political ends.”

Minutes from the town council’s management and staffing meeting last month state the council had received further e-mails from Mr Morris. These e-mails reportedly included a “confidential” letter from the council’s financial advisor, which was meant for council members.

Mr Morris said he was made aware that the advisor had concerns about funding for the council’s £1.1 million North Street civic centre project.

He confirmed he did e-mail Ms Bailey to ask about this, but received no reply.

He said the police had not been in touch with him in relation to this.

Mrs Bailey said: “I had to get the police involved because of what was happening and because of his attitude towards me.

“The police have gone to speak to him, though I understand they will not take any further action.”