New Year resolutions that will make a difference

WE ALL have the power to make New Year resolutions that will help protect our precious wildlife. Plant a native tree, or, if you don’t have the space, sponsor one through the Woodland Trust. Stop using pesticides and herbicides — when you kill slugs and snails, you remove food for hedgehogs and thrushes. Put up a nest box, bat box or bug hotel to give nature a home.

ROB CURTIS, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan. IN 2018, we should tell the gender fluid, no plat forming, namee rasing, statue removing, word banning and panto altering to leave in peace the 99 per cent of the population who aren’t interested in these topics. A tiny minority shouldn’t be able to set the agenda for what the rest of us can think and say.

PETER NUGENT, Bootle, Merseyside. I TRUST politicians and the BBC have resolved to refrain from using these phrases in 2018: ‘Lessons have been learned’, ‘it is not a figure we recognise’, ‘the best emission reduction targets in the world’, ‘we are committed’, ‘we will set up a committee’ and ‘catastrophic global warming’. CLARK CROSS, Linlithgow, West Lothian. MY ReSOLUtION is to leave behind all the plastic packaging in the supermarket when I do my shopping. If everyone did this, it would show the source of this pernicious trash.

JOHN NORRIS, Bracknell, Berks. SO MUCH needs addressing in 2018: help the homeless by bringing back into use empty and derelict houses; reach out to lonely elderly, infirm and disabled people; raise the state pension to equal the living wage; and reduce the wage gap between the haves and have-nots. JOHN WILMOTT, Hucknall, Notts.