PM’S EU exit will be costly to planet

How is it that our green Prime Minister, with his 10 point plan for cutting carbon emissions, can at the same time be running towards the exit from negotiations with the EU for a free trade agreement and talking up the beauty of being free to do exactly as we like and regard the wide world as our oyster?

Can he really not have realised that, if and when new deals are

done with distant countries, transporting goods across seas and continents will be costly not only financially but disastrously so in terms of carbon emissions?

Proud to be British? No deeply ashamed and afraid for the future. Diana Francis

Bath

I’m a regular visitor to The Botanical Gardens in Victoria Park and appreciate the work that’s recently been going on to make it a more beautiful place for the public, including a scenic wedding venue.

However, over the last few months I have become aware of a rat infestation for the first time in years. I have read that the rat population has soared this year in Bath, but it’s very unpleasant to see them at close quarters!

Several times I have been horrified to witness big rats very near to the wedding venue, in broad daylight, apparently unconcerned about the numerous people around.

I have also seen them running out from under the new tool shed at the bottom of the gardens.

On approaching two Council gardeners, they agreed that there are a lot of rats around, but dismissed our dismay, seeing the rats as a natural part of the ecosystem, “clean” and impossible to eradicate.

I followed the conversation by an email to the council, but surprisingly they are not concerned as it is an open space and they are not taking any action on what they don’t perceive as a problem.

I have told several friends about this and all (bar one) have been horrified and say they won’t be going future.

Surely the council could attempt to at least reduce the numbers by putting down rat traps as seen around the city centre?

Hilary Hemming

By email there for the foreseeable