Sir, - My children and I were listening to Barry Lang (Drivetime, 2FM) the other evening decrying the activities of Christmas tree thieves, who cut down thousands of trees every year, for sale on the Christmas market. Apart from the theft, he said how terrible it was to cut down trees as they cleanse our polluted atmosphere.
Sorry Barry, sitka spruce (Christmas trees to me and you) actually scavenge acid from the atmosphere, and feed it to the ground and ground water below. So the more sitka spruce are cut down and sold as Christmas trees, the better. - Yours, etc.,
Lyragh, Hollywood, West Wicklow.