I WRITE in support of FANS (Five Acres Not for Sale) from two points of view: sentimentality and practicality.

The first point is that in six months' time the Five Acres campus will be 100 years old. I had the good fortune to work for well over a third of that time on that campus and, but for a war, it could have been even more years – hence my sentiment for the campus.

Secondly the practical point – who is intending to spend millions of pounds of our money to provide we Foresters with a duplicate facility to that of Five Acres but on a different site?

I fail to see the commonsense behind this activity.

– D Keith Wilkes, Lydney.