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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Duff Hart-Davis (Country Matters, 17 October) may feel that townspeople dislike the "hirsute, unkempt look" of set-aside farmland, but some of us appreciate that it provides a refuge for the invertebrates that cannot survive modern farming practices. If the invertebrates come back, so will the small mammals and birds that are so sadly missing from our modern, squeaky-clean, monoculture countryside.
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Sir: You note (leading article, 15 October) that the "spirit" zone in the Millennium Dome was "saved" by being funded by a Hindu businessman and not by a Christian body. In the light of the Church's three-year preparation for the Jubilee celebration of the 2000th anniversary (give or take four or six years) of the Incarnation, many Christians are putting their money and their energy into the cancellation of Third World debt. People created in the image of God are more valuable than buildings.
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ERNEST RUDD
York
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