I CANNOT believe that there are deluded climate deniers still defending this arrogant, self-centred farmer (John Price) who pays no respect to our precious countryside.

Despite having several warnings he was so dismissive that he criminally destroyed our landscape.

We are one of the most nature denuded countries in the world, and our rivers are in a parlous state, which obviously he does not consider a priority, possibly because he thinks being a millionaire he doesn’t have to abide by the same rules as the rest of us.

Farmers have systematically damaged our countryside where up to 80 per cent of species are endangered and this just punishment is a warning to others that we have to respect our biodiversity.

On the question of dredging, which seems to attract the fanatics: it does not work. 

Ask any environment agency and they will tell you all it does is move the problem to another area, destroying more biodiversity in the process.

As for the river Lugg flooding, of course it did in the past but that was into floodplains that have been ignored by farmers, and then one exacerbated the problem by straightening the river.

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If this farmer wasn’t so pig-headed I am sure he could have obtained advice on controlling the river in an environmental manner. Farming covers 70 per cent of the country and it is incumbent on them to protect our biodiversity, and at the present moment, they are not doing a very good job.

I wonder if the people of Hereford, including the deluded Trumpian climate deniers, would acquiesce to a businessman moving into Hereford Cathedral tearing down the altar and burning the pews, then setting up pizza and fish-and-chip stalls.

I suppose they would say only religious fanatics keep the cathedral in the state it is in and the businessman should not be prosecuted.

PETER SKIPWORTH

Spilsby

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