I HAVE warned about the boar problem in the Forest of Dean some time ago.

But recently matters have become much worse.

The whole area of Viney Hill is beginning to look like a pig-sty. The boar are coming out of the woods and they are not only churning up the verges, but large areas of what until now have been pleasant green spaces, grazed by the sheep and where necessary cut once of twice a year by the council.

My family, visiting from Essex, were horrified that when they came up from the A48 into Viney Hill to see the devastation near the church.

Their first remarks on arrival were, 'what has happened?'

Not perhaps the way to attract tourists into the Forest.

For my own part matters have become much worse in the last few weeks. I keep my car on hard standing at the end of my garden. When I bring my vehicle into the narrow lane, which serves my back gate, I park on a wide green verge while I shut my gates.

But now the boar have churned up the entire stretch of verge adjoining my garden wall making it impossible to use.

The boar have also churned up the verges of my four neighbours and over onto the main green.

My neighbours and I attempted some reinstatement the first time it happened, the next night the boar came back.

I am 88-years-old and cannot keep trying to clean up after a herd of pigs.

Please Forestry Commission, do something.

I Bond

Viney Hill