I FELT impelled to write in response to the decision by Malvern Girls' College to plough up Hayslan Field.

I, unlike the college, do not own the field, but I love it with a passion, which they cannot possibly feel for it, or they would not have been able to authorise its destruction.

My house on the edge of the Langlands Estate has only a very small garden, so my son, daughter and their young friends had many childhood adventures and games on the Hayslan Field, and many of the magical memories of their early years are of this area.

In more recent years, since having a dog, my early morning walks on the field have been a lovely, peaceful and calm start to an otherwise hectic day, and I have enjoyed the beauty of the meadow land through all the changing seasons. The morning after the ploughing started, I returned home from my walk in tears, unable to believe such an unnecessary act of vandalism had taken place.

Education is said to take place in a large part through role models. I fervently hope that the girls attending the College do not take as an example this wanton destructiveness and patent abuse of power.

Yours, in a mixture of anger and sorrow.

CAROLYN A LAW, Bawdsey Avenue, Malvern.