SIR,
The age of miracles is still with us, or is it the power
of the press, aided by the joint efforts of Counc Liz
Hackett Pain and Messrs David Davies and Nick
Ramsay, for whom I express my grateful thanks.
No doubt, the Environment mandarins will claim that
clearing the flood channel had been pre-programmed
and that its clearance so soon after my letter appeared
in your worthy paper is just a coincidence!
As King Charles II (of blessed memory) is reported to
have said when a merchant trader was trying to
impress him "Tell that to the marines, if they believe it
to be true, it must be".
Here is one retired Royal Marine writing, with bated
breath, to learn what verbal diarrhoea emanates from
the ivory tower.
Allan Stevens
(Monmouth