CAN it be the wonderfully restored Holgate windmill that encourages so much tilting at windmills in the area? I hope not.

What mindset can it be that needs to write to The Press extolling the virtues of alfresco paganism at the expense of stone-built ecclesiastical edifices (that’s churches to you and I) on the basis that they were designed to oppress the plebs (that’s you and I)? They blot out the light, apparently.

Mr Scaife seems to be of that mindset. Now he has castigated all members of government for being too far to the right of George Galloway, he turns his attention to science and religion.

One can only wonder who will be in line next as an oppressor worthy of his ire. William the Conqueror, the Angles and Saxons.

So as the newly-converted pagans search for a glade of aspen trees I fear the council will have to plant a few in the open space left by the demolition of the Minster and wait for summer to arrive to benefit from the leaves “singing in the breeze”.

Peter Elliott, Wetherby Road, York