HOW I agree with an heartbroken Atherton resident who has watched the naturalised area near her home destroyed in the name of progress.
Margaret Howard, of Rivington Street, a woman of my own heart, has cried over the devastation of mature trees and chaos created for wildlife which have lost their homes to make way for more, surely unneeded, human boxes at the end of the by-pass.
She says the RSPCA say they can do nothing to help the creatures because it's not considered cruel. What is it then?
The only "animal" life on the site now is the massive greyhound caterpillar machines which are queuing up to hurtle from one side of the site across the main road to the other at every lights change.
If building continues Atherton will merge into Daisy Hill, once a pretty little village which has been totally eaten up by estates, and there will be no green fields or wildlife left. What a very sad day that will be for us all.
Surely the day will come when the human race will have to pay for its uncaring superiority.
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