Being a teacher, I love my work with children. I make every effort to give them, along with my own children, all the guidance within my power to gentle their characters.

I teach them to love and care for animals and birds and to enjoy the flowers and trees. They seem to love it, I'm delighted to say.

However, various happenings in Queens Park, Brighton, are worrying us all a great deal.

The recent notice in the park, from the current park attendant, asking for a "work party" for last Sunday for the wild area, worried us. The wild area hardly needs any work - it works itself. That's its beauty. A bit of tidying and planting - as one of the public used to do - was sufficient.

Our worries were justified.

Our photograph shows good, green, healthy branches - piles of them stripped from the ground. The ground left desolate.

Was this the park attendant's idea? I wonder what justifies such destruction.

My brother also said boys were playing football on the bowling green. Surely the attendant's job is to stop them.

So, my husband, brother, friends and I are very concerned. Having seen the destruction on the island (depriving the birds of protection), now the wild area, plus the north end of the pond bushes, have had an electric saw pulled right through them.

It looks terrible. Who's in charge? What's happening to Queens Park?

-Mrs Andrew Martin, Brighton