SO that's what our representative of the local Green Party thinks! That we should allow the desecration of trees and wild life in the name of dubious 'art'.

Right! Well that's the last time I shall vote for the Green Party, and I voted for them at the last local elections. I would be interested to know whether the 'artist' checked to see whether there were any birds nesting, or sitting on eggs, or feeding fledglings in those trees before he hacked them to the ground.

It is well known that certain types of birds are seriously reduced in this country now; among these are song thrushes which are liable to be nesting around now and possibly in such trees.

I for one would rather listen to a song thrush than gape at a tree shoved in the ground upside down in the name of modern art. I would have thought the local Green Party should be concerned about wildlife in the environment. I thought that was what they stood for, not pandering to the current trend to be bizarre at all costs because you haven't any real artistic talent.

And as to the lighting on these paths, the same thing applies. Birds can't sleep in floodlit trees and they desert them I believe. So where does that leave the thrushes. Deserting the nest, fledglings die even fewer left to try and carry on. Is there no one sensible out there who cares about this?

R Anderson Larchwood Lancaster