So, two 13-metre communication masts are planned for the end of Alexandra Terrace in Marlborough the telecommunications firm's and Marlborough Town Council planning committee's contribution to the pin cushion that our landscape is fast resembling.

Something which is easily put up in the name of necessary progress is much harder to take down later, when it has become entirely obvious that it is a piece of pointless arrogance, as well as an eyesore.

In Prague in 1949 the authorities justified the creation of a 13-metre structure overlooking that lovely city as "Man's triumph over nature."

The 13-metre monument was a monument to Joseph Stalin.

HN Osborne

St Martins, Marlborough