The Tory government’s plans to reduce the funding for pharmacies by 6% from October has had exiguous publicity in the media. Pharmacies are an essential fraction of the NHS and the local community,and this gash is predicted to lead to the closure of one in four of them. A petition to oppose the cuts, which requires 100000 votes for a parliamentary debate, or can be found online at https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/116943
Dave Taylor
Purbrook,Hampshire• Hedgehogs are probably our most- loved garden residents (Notebook, 23 February), or so why do gardeners still exercise slug pellets,which indiscriminately kill not only hedgehogs but also the garden birds that eat slugs and ingest the poison?
Jacky Creswick
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Source: theguardian.com