SOME 2,680 of our public woodlands have been sold, only 48 with official public access agreements, despite an election promise by John Major "not to privatise the Forestry Commission."
In 1940, Churchill released a patriotic poster captioned 'Your Britain Fight For It Now,' but most of our public land and all our water has been sold off by this asset-stripping government, much of it to foreigners.
PHILIP GREIG, Bridge Farm, Hannington Wick, Swindon, Wiltshire.
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