PUBLIC houses being boarded up or pulled down is met with little more than a murmur nowadays. Camra, a lone voice, inform us that since January 2012, 208 pubs have been converted into supermarkets, and that current pub closures are running between 26-28 a week.

Ironically many of those supermarkets are now selling cut price milk at a time when one dairy farm a day is going to the wall. All of this it seems with the blessing of our politicians.

BOB WOODLAND, Cavan Crescent, Waterloo Estate, Poole