EXCLUSIVE by Malcolm Evans, Keighley News, Friday May 3, 1985
The Keighley News today reveals that a death threat to a top politician was printed on publicly funded equipment.
Bradford council has also pumped public money into organisations used by anarchists involved in violent and illegal activities.
Anarchists have wrecked a nuclear civil defence bunker at Keighley and shadowy groups are encouraging the destruction of other installations.
The Baildon home of West Yorkshire Tory Councillor Royston Moore two months ago suffered an arson attack. His car was wrecked and only prompt fire brigade action saved the house.
A death-threat letter followed but police inquiries have drawn a blank.
The stencilled letter referred to the closure of Thornton View Hospital by Bradford Health Authority, of which Councillor Moore is chairman.
It said: "R. has to go! The law of nature says he must die."
The Keighley News has traced the printing of the threat to Bradford Community Print Shop in Thornton Road, Bradford. The shop receives £4,500 a year from Bradford council and £6,500 from Yorkshire Arts.
When challenged by the KN, Print Shop partner Tony Grogan said: "This is all I need. It (the letter stencil) won't still be there. The people who use the shop aren't that stupid."
Grogan is a supporter of the anarchist group KDIS (Knee Deep In S**t) which uses the Print Shop as its contact address and produces inflammatory leaflets and magazines.
He is also a member of the Bradford 1 in 12 Club, which meets in pubs and clubs and which has received £4,700 from Bradford council.
The club will receive a council administered grant of £59,000 when it finds suitable permanent premises.
As well as promoting bona-fide events for unemployed people the club, admits Grogan, "has a number of active members engaged in various activities and is the base for KDIS."
Two 1 in 12 members were arrested in February and are awaiting trial on charges of incitement to commit criminal damage.
Grogan is a member of the printers' union SOGAT, the assistant Bradford secretary of which is Bradford council's Labour chief whip Councillor Gerry Sutcliffe.
He says: "To the best of my knowledge the Print Shop were and still are a respectable organisation."
The KN has met a member of a militant peace-movement group calling itself Spies for Peace, which claims responsibility for the attack 18 months ago on the Royal Observer Corps nuclear-war monitoring bunker near Keighley Tarn.
There was an official hush-up over the incident. The bunker, secured by heavy padlocks, was broken into and set on fire. Papers were stolen.
The Spies for Peace member says: "So much relies on these bunkers they need destroying. It's like removing the bottom cans from a supermarket display."
He says Spies for Peace is a loose organisation of like-minded people throughout the country.