HOW I WILL VOTE: SARA PARKIN

Green party members are planning a campaign of direct action against the BBC in protest at their lack of coverage in the election campaign.

The Green Party launched its manifesto yesterday with policies to pull Britain out of the European Union, scrap all the United Kingdom's nuclear weapons and take the railways back into public ownership.

Sir: The Lib Dem manifesto may be the "greenest ever produced by any major party in Britain", (Trevor Brown, letter, 7 April) but it still lacks crucial elements of a truly green vision.

Sir: For an answer to the question "How green is your party?" don't ask the parties' environment spokespeople: they're too well practised at saying what greens want to hear. The environment is affected by a whole range of other policies, so quiz politicians who have other remits. For example.

Strange as it may seem, one group of people has actually enjoyed the long, wearisome road to the election announcement. The longer John Major has dithered - and the rest of us have withered - the brighter they have become. Environmentalists have had a good phoney war.

Sir: "Saving the world" needs action, not patronising editorials (leading article, 13 January). The "violence" to a tipper truck at Newbury is as nothing compared to the relentless trashing and burning of ancient woodland, demolition of thousands of homes and eviction of whole communities that the roads programme continues to demand.

Middle-class greens were brought face-to-face with the spectre of violence over the weekend, when a tipper truck was set ablaze by protesters in Newbury. Some of them (us?) will have felt a strong urge to hop into their Range Rovers and head back to respectability. But even without the actions of the Provisional wing of the ecology movement, the hardening of positions in the muddy trenches of the battles of the Newbury bypass and the Exeter-Honiton road raise important questions about the future direction of environmental protest.

Sir: What is the connection between "Hole in ozone layer", and "MPs unite on right to work plan?" (reports, 8 March). You can have either the ozone layer or a minimum wage, but not both.

I DISAGREE with Geoffrey Lean's patronising depiction of the Green Party as "doomsters", "loonies" and "hippies".

From Mr Martin Hughes-Jones

NICHOLAS SCHOON

WATERWORLD Kevin Reynolds (12)

Marie Woolf on a campaign to save scarce inner-city land