Voluntary local groups are struggling to raise funds to force inquiries into these changes of status
Posted in General on 06. Aug, 2010
Voluntary local groups are struggling to raise funds to force inquiries into these changes of status.
Mr Blair should direct county councils to stop issuing these orders until the law can be reconsidered. I understand that our local West Sussex County Council is reluctant to issue such orders but the law is forcing it to do so.Traffic restriction orders may eventually be placed on these paths, but they are expensive and take a long time to enforce, by which time the paths have been wrecked permanently.R LLOYD JONESPetersfield, Hampshire. Sir: I was astonished to see no mention of the superb series The Ascent of Man with Jacob Bronowski in your report about the loss of “classic” television programmes (8 October). These then proceed to reduce these paths in some cases to mud lagoons impassable to all other users. Sir: Few people seem aware that so far from curbing the car (letter, 5 October), county councils are engaged in changing Rupps (roads used as public paths) to Boats (byways open to all traffic), thus opening up hitherto quiet, unspoilt areas to that gas-guzzling menace of the countryside, 4×4 vehicles.
Then he would follow his vinegar fasts to take it all off again; and so on, in a self-loathing cycle of bingeing and fasting.
BEE WILSONCambridge. Sir: We must stop kow-towing to Russia and call Moscow’s bluff over its continued support for the fascist regime in Belgrade. All through the killing fields of Bosnia and now Kosovo Russia has sought to prevent the international community from taking the decisive action necessary to save lives and bring about peace.
The other members of the UN Security Council, the EU and Nato should ignore Russian threats of veto and “dire consequences” as nothing more than the blether of a former superpower turned basket-case whose Balkan “policy” has descended into Slav-nationalist paranoia.BEN BRADSHAW MP(Exeter, Lab)House of CommonsLondon SW1. “Yo-yo dieter” or “bulimic” would be more apt, given that Byron was obese as often as he was emaciated.
In his own words: “When I do dine, I gorge like an Arab or a Boa snake” In his fat phases, his appetite knew no bounds. He binged on vast meals of sturgeon, brawn and plum puddings and bloated up accordingly. If certain areas of cancer care are underfunded it is because the pie is too small and not because breast cancer services have too big a slice.
DELYTH MORGANChief ExecutiveBreakthrough Breast CancerLondon WC2. Sir: The poet Byron undoubtedly suffered eating disorders (“Byron was severely anorexic”, 8 October) but the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa seems incomplete. Those that escape are tired but unharmed.There are two sides to every story.D J B DENNY BVet Med MRC.SWorcester. Sir: If the breast cancer message now seems loud (“Spare me breast cancer month”, 6 October), it may be because it is being compared to silence For too long breast cancer was a Cinderella condition. The disease had no public profile and many women were unwilling to discuss their experience of it If things have now begun to change, that is an achievement.
Let’s not belittle it by suggesting that by raising awareness of one disease we are detracting from equally deserving causes. The hunt is frequently called in to find such deer and dispatch them. A conservative estimate of 5 per cent of the deer are injured by stalking.With hunting there is an end point to the suffering, the deer being shot at the end of a hunt. This can take up to 10 minutes.The above is the ideal scenario – an expert, well-practiced marksman under good conditions. With less-skilled marksmen or indifferent conditions the deer are more likely to be injured and escape, to suffer possibly for life.