SIR,

Whilst we walked  our dog around Clawdd Du, the ditch not the area, on Tuesday we came across council workmen dismembering two trees.

We had heard previously that these trees cut out light from the houses close by, so be it.

What we see on Wednesday are two bare stumps 4-5 meters high. Enquiring to the council employees in charge of this operation they said it was because the trees are willows. Willows are not good trees to be near houses because of their voracious roots, so why were they not felled completely? We are left with these hideous stumps. Even if they shoot from the stumps they will remain ugly.

Now a further vandalism perpetrated by the Council has occurred next to St. Thomas's Church. There is a shrubbery at which I witnessed workmen so called pruning, with a hedge trimmer, for goodness sake!

All the flowering stems of the cistuses have been cut off, also the potentillas. The vibernams were in flower so that amenity has been destroyed. The shrubs were all near their full growth and were not causing a nuisance to passers by.

This appears to me to make work, which we have to pay for. I think the people involved should be dismissed and replaced with people who have sympathy for our environment.

Peter Morgan