TRISH Marsh’s comment about accuracy in politics and giving credit where it’s due (Letters, June 6) goes further than road and pavement repairs.

I was stunned, on reading Sir Bill Wiggin’s recent election leaflet, to see his brazen attempt to take credit for progress towards restoring water quality in the river Wye. Sir Bill’s parliamentary voting record reveals he consistently votes against measures to protect the environment.

In correspondence with me, he clearly states that he does not rate action to mitigate climate change as a high priority.

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Likewise, his response to scientific evidence around the massive decline of nature is that these “rumours or campaigns are designed to upset good people but happily turn out not to be true”.

He is indeed a very unlikely candidate to be our environmental champion. Where action to restore the Wye is concerned, my vote of thanks goes to the Wildlife Trusts and many other organisations and their volunteers who have fought for this over many years. And no doubt they will continue to do so after Sir Bill Wiggin has gone.

SUSANNA PERKINS

Ledbury