I INVITE Pershore folk to take a stroll some time along the banks of the drainage channel that crosses King George's field on its way to the river. There they will see the dismal result of one more act of 'enhancement'.

Last year, a serviceable path on either side of the channel was hacked into to create a succession of long thin shallow bedding plots. As a consequence it is now impossible for two people to walk the paths abreast. In these plots several hundred infant shrubs were stuck in an off-hand way and then abandoned to hassle it out with an emerging horde of Pershore's toughest weeds - a battle they have plainly lost.

Meantime, two great heaps of costly boulders were piled around the culvert in a laughable attempt to fashion a rockery. Yet again the shrubs are long gone and the rockery has become a genuine challenge to mountain-bikers.

Why is there this itch abroad among environmental captains to justify their office by forever initiating new schemes of digging and planting, schemes which they have not the resources or man-power to maintain, when they could better spend their time in keeping what we have in good nick? As it is we have two maimed paths and an eyesore.

And now Wychavon are once again weaving designs for the Abbey Park.

A E SINFIELD, High Street, Pershore.