Car Boot Sale of Our Nation's Great Assets ; Letters

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It seemed at first that Westminster's root and branch reforms had struck Penzance - still reeling from news that vandals from Truro have spirited away the town centre's one and only refuge for birdlife other than the ubiquitous herring gulls. People asking if this immoderate piece of tree surgery wasn't on the government's policy agenda - which reads like a horror movie script - were told the act of slyly removing the 'pot bound' woody perennial at the bottom of Causeway Head was an act of mercy addressing an urgent need to replace a not very old, or visibly diseased, Whitebeam with an exotic, costlier, conifer - alias a Ginko.

The deciduous sapling had got too big for its boots. Strangely nobody thought of re-potting the slender rowanlike tree. Neither did New County Hall have the courtesy to inform Penzance Town Council of this drastic measure to prepare locals for the shock of having to say goodbye to a familiar wellloved friend.

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Car Boot Sale of Our Nation's Great Assets ; Letters

For the residents of West Penwith, the world often seems to end at Hayle. But many turned out fo...

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