IT is that time of year again when ragwort is growing and flowering in the countryside and towns. It is a weed which is lethal to horses and it must be rooted out before it has the chance to go to seed because each plant produces millions.

Last year, I spent a lot of time pulling the plants out on Bailey's Field in Darwen, a job with which I received no co-operation whatsoever from Blackburn with Darwen Council.

I am no spring chicken and so do not intend to overstretch myself again.

Although there are no plants growing in the areas I covered, there are other patches of them on the field and I think that the people who have stables in the area would be well advised to get them rooted out now before they go to seed or the ragwort will be spreading onto the grazing land.

EILEEN EASTHAM, Milton Close, Darwen.