ON a recent party political broadcast, the leader of the Conservatives was keen to reassure us of his party's commitment to the environment.

That he then chose to go flying round the world looking at the effects of global warming, thus contributing unnecessarily to it, was a strange decision.

Similarly, that Peter Baker, the candidate for Clayton North, chose to travel from street to street around Clayton Brook delivering leaflets in a rather large car rather than parking centrally and walking as other candidates seem to have managed, also seems a strange decision for an apparently environmentally friendly party.

PHIL ADCROFT (Mr), Three Nooks, Clayton Brook.