Letter: There are moral and social issues that should concern us more than seems to be the case.

For example, how many people took the time to find out about the attempt by Apley residents to campaign, unavailingly, to keep open land fenced off by English Partnerships?

Have people noticed the extent to which the quango is denying the people of Telford access to land that is not in the process of a planning application for building in the near future?

Surely God’s land, reclaimed by human labour, and historically fought for in past wars, should be available to the people without hindrance?

The partnership is busily trying to impress the housing corporation with which it wants to do business, while spending public money erecting fences to keep the taxpayer out of its own environment.

This profound insult is conveniently overlooked by the borough council though, David Wright is now taking a belated but welcome interest. The parish council is pursuing the matter in its area, thus demonstrating the validity of parish councils.

Whatever the future use of this land the dog in the manger policy must stop. It is virtually a return to the enclosure policy of previous times though in a more psychologically damaging way rather than the physical ejections of the past.

It is the responsibility of citizens, and the media in general, to focus on fundamental concerns like this as the Star has shown when reporting my referendum on the town park,

John D Evans, Randlay