DEAR Editor – The tyranny of council mowing contractors never ceases to amaze. Despite a climate emergency and the need for biodiversity, swarms of petrol-driven machines, from strimmers and leaf-blowers to sit-astride mowing machines, descend on Pershore’s green spaces to destroy new growth, disturb the habitat and, in some cases, kill young hedgehogs.

Regardless of representations made to town and district council to restrain such eco-vandalism, the destruction of the fragile wildlife reserves we should leave alone goes unabated year on year.

It makes you wonder which planet they are on – last time I looked, there was only one!

Michael Chapman Pincher

Pershore