I was pleased to read (Malvern Gazette & Ledbury Reporter, December 26) that the Hereford-shire Nature Trust has at last decided, in part, to do the decent thing with regard to the bequest of my late great-aunt and uncle, Mr Charlie and Mrs Annie Page, formerly of Upper Norton, Bromyard.

It has decided to sell only part of the land left to it on the condition of retention for conservation and retain a parcel, the extent of which it has not yet divulged.

I am saddened, though not surprised, the Trust chose to repeat its misleading 'spin' over this land. Throughout the summer it made a number of claims; that the land had been intensively farmed - it had never been, the Page's were traditional farmers and left richly diverse meadowland; That the costs of upkeep would be prohibitive - on the contrary, the land could be let as it is now and the Bromyard branch of the Trust had pledged to maintain it.

My family had the land independently surveyed and its value as bio-diverse meadowland was subsequently confirmed by a generous offer made by the Grassland Trust to manage all of the land, as owners, or as manager for the Herefordshire Nature Trust. This offer was not taken up.

I am, however, thrilled that at least part of the land will be retained for the people of Bromyard in memory of my aunt and uncle, who gave much to their community during their long association with the area.

I just wish the Trust had felt able to honour, as a condition of its benefiting from the bequest, the last wish of a very generous couple who loved Bromyard.

John D. W. Pound, Georgina Avenue, St John's, Worcester.