[Gayle]

Do you ever sleep?

If you can suggest a better way of reaching the public then please advise me. It has been a regular feature in the local newspapers, we have put up exhibitions around the area, we have held four public meetings and it has been posted on every website we are aware of. As you say, the poll may not represent the entire population but it is the entire population that we have been able to reach.

As I said at the beginning I will state facts as I know them. Clearly, I have been given incorrect information about the name of the hill. I think this is a slightly irrelevant point to continue to raise when clearly the Coppice can be seen from a higher point.

The subject of the trenches is a different matter. The overheads that I have don't show those two front trenches which as you point out the circle goes over. A few things occur to me, either those trenches have been filled in more recently than your picture was taken, or the circle goes over them as you indicate. Yes, it needs to be looked into but also we need to assess how valuable two trenches are to the over all scheme. This is not me suggesting we ride roughshod over the views of people who want to keep the existing trenches at all - just that it clearly needs to be investigated further and I will return to this subject at a later point when I have more information available.