A TOP councillor wants speed humps in his ward lowered.

Clr John Smithson has found the Somerset Road humps are 110mm, nearly 50% higher than they should be.

The Almondbury councillor said: "When Kirklees Council was consulting on this it was on the basis of 75mm, not 110mm.

"People were quite rightly fed up with traffic speeding, but the humps have to be at the right height.

"I will be taking this up with the highways department."

Clr Smithson and his two Almondbury colleagues, Linda Wilkinson and Ann Denham, accepted a petition from residents at Almondbury Liberal Club last month.

More than 300 people signed the document calling for the speed humps to be removed.