IT IS so tragic that every metal-bearing object is being virtually raped from our surroundings, only to end up at the scrapyard for a wad of back pocket cash.

Obviously a sign of these desperate times, I wonder if Mr Cameron envisaged such things in his supposed Master Plan in getting our economy back on track?

But it comes to something when I noticed that even the brass lightning conductor on Hill Street car park in Poole, has been vandalised by these metal thieves, trying to prise it from the walls of the building.

Fred Dinenage’s Merdian News showed that the bronze statue of a soldier had suffered the same fate, but what else can be expected from these younger generations who only know Churchill as a bulldog on the TV adverts selling car insurance? No respect whatsoever!

ALAN BURRIDGE, Blandford Road, Upton