SIR - Diglis has been far from restful over the last year. The screech and crash of demolition on the Porcelain works site, the roar of lorries and heavy construction machinery, the thump and clang of pile drivers.

Building work is inevitably noisy but, of course, people need homes.

Wild birds and animals are increasingly seeking refuge in urban green-spaces as changing farm practices put the squeeze on rural biodiversity.

So this is a plea for wildlife friendly gardening and tolerance for our neighbourhood vixen and her exuberant cubs.

Their yelps are so much easier on the ear than the cacophony of mechanical noise and city clamour that assaults us.

Most of us in the area welcome these uninvited visitors and they are a total delight to the housebound pensioner in whose garden your picture showed them frolicking (Worcester News, June 11).

Let's not forget that foxes too need homes.

SALLY DEAN AND ROBERT WILKINS, Worcester Green Party