The Country Land and Business Association are reported in the Journal as urging landowners to deal with the ragwort which is increasingly infesting the countryside.

For those of us trying at some expense in effort and money to clear our land, it is frustrating to see carpets of yellow flowers along the roadsides and the railway tracks, knowing that the seeds will inevitably blow onto our properties.

In Pebworth and Broad Marston, we try to pull up these weeds and burn them, of course. But the local authorities, the Highways Agency and Network Rail have shown no evidence that they are recognising ragwort as a problem. Maybe they believe that livestock will not graze on their property, but they are rotten neighbours for the rest of us.

Robert Woodthorpe Browne, Broad Marston, Stratford.