Madam,

I went to look at the place in North Road park, Aberystwyth, where I had been told the trees had been felled.

It was a depressing sight. The four lovely white poplars and one black poplar, with leaves that rustled even in the slightest breeze, with many birds and even hedgehogs – they were all gone.

No poplars. Unsurprisingly, no sign of hedgehogs, their territory now no longer grass and leaf-litter, but an expanse of flattened mud; now, many fewer birds. Worse still, and only now, since the trees were felled, people have been dumping mounds of household rubbish, and the council hasn’t even had it cleared away.

Only since the felling, scrawled graffiti has enormously increased. It had been quite a beauty spot. Now it is just another piece of urban scruff.

Yours etc, William Russell, Rue De Bellefond, Paris.

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