ARE there others like me who find it so unbelievable. First

we have a bridge built for the bats across the new

Dobwalls bypass, now their own new house at a cost of

£17,000 – because bats are a protected species! Many

birds' eggs and much more wildlife is protected.

Then we come to the unborn baby, which in the mother's

womb should be in the safest place, but many thousands

are aborted every year. It seems human life is of no value

at all!

JENNIFER WILLOUGHBY

Liskeard

WE are constantly told that this country is in a poor

financial state and has no money to spend on much-

needed projects and decent levels of retirement pensions.

How is it then that a large amount of taxpayers'

money can be found to build a bat house and a bat bridge

at Dobwalls? 

If bats are clever enough to know that they are expected

to inhabit this particular building, surely they are clever

enough to find there own way around and somewhere else

to roost by themselves.  

This finally proves to me that this country has gone

completely bats when we are providing houses for these

creatures when so many humans are unable to get their

own house!   

Mike Jackman

Looe

WOW, affordable housing comes to Cornwall at last.

There, in black and white, the truth stripped bare. One can

build a house in Cornwall for just £17,000.

Sure, this one was for bats to use and there were no free

curtains, carpets or fitted kitchens included. But is just

goes to show that if pushed, it needn't cost an arm and a

leg to get on the housing ladder and get married etc.

If only builders ere encouraged to build starter homes.

They needn't have 'free' carpeting throughout and all the

other bits and pieces to entice first-time buyers to

purchase inflated profit-bulging rip-off houses.

Sure, it isn't a Rolls Royce, but which among us could

afford one of those as soon as we got married. Start small

and work one's way to to a mansion house if you so wish.

HUGH ROGERS

West Looe