I WOULD like to refer to the front page of the Review this week headed 'Boar warning' and comments from the Forestry Commission for people to check their fences.

I am very aware of fence and hedge conditions and to the Forestry representatives I say 'don't be a silly billy'. Now let us go back a few years to the forest sheep fiasco which mainly occurred in Bream.

The council spent vast amounts of taxpayers' money on nomadic sheep. In many cases sheep are a big nuisance as ever. Perhaps if £1 per head was charged the money could be used for legal representation and compensation.

When the boars had a go at Beechenhurst it did not take long to put a fence up. When damage is done to our properties do we prosecute the Queen?

Those that feed the boar, and many do, should be made to repair the damage and start at my abode. One must also accept that any mother will protect her young, whether it be deer, sheep, cows, boar, even humans. One must also remember there are none so blind as those who do not wish to see.

– Mike Meredith-Edwards, Sling.