I LIVE near the wildlife lodge off Newington Drive and I think it was beautiful. But now it is a disgrace.

I went on a walk and I looked at the lodge and I could hear water draining out. The water level had gone down a lot since I last saw it. The trees were chopped in half, with all the branches lying in the water.

There are no birds there. Where will the birds find a pretty home like where they used to live? Where have all the nests gone? There could have been babies in those nests and now they could have drowned.

I wonder how the Stately Developments people would feel if they were a bird or fish that died or had nowhere to live. They would feel very angry and unhappy, like we do and the animals who lived there.

CHERYL L. HOWARD, aged 10, Ainsworth Road, Bury.

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