LETTERS: Newbury: wrong battleground for anti-road lobby
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: You make the mistake of gauging the strength of today's road protest movement by the number of tree-climbers.
The anti-roads battle is deeply embedded in the consciousness of Middle England - and, as with the M11 fight here in east London, it is increasingly being waged far less spectacularly by "ordinary" people revealing the lies and brutalities of the Highways Agency while lobbying hard to prevent further destruction of the little green space we have left.
And, as for the M11 and Newbury, those fights are far from over. You'll see ...
H T Jones
London E11
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