DTp joins Orpheus in tree business
4th February 1984, Page 28
4th February 1984
Page 28
Page 28, 4th February 1984
— DTp joins Orpheus in tree business
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Keywords :
Argonauts, Greek Mythology, Olympus, Orpheus, Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker Of Wallasey, Broad-leaved Tree, Environment, War / Conflict
"Orpheus with his lute made trees," sang a wench to cheer up a justifiably depressed Queen Katharine in Shakespeare's King Henry VIII. She needed Lynda Chalker, Minister of State for Transport, to tell her about the Department of Transport, which with its tax loot plants on average more than 20,000 trees and shrubs a week along motorways and trunk roads.
That would have given the "poor weak woman, fallen from favour" no end of a kick, especially if she had been told that there were now nearly 25m of them, mostly broad-leaved and every one a potential chopping block or gallows.