Enough of the fudging about what to do about the geese problem in Rowntree Park.

Pricking eggs, planting shrubs and giving dogs a mad half hour chasing them is all very well, but why not turn this health hazard - which is what they are without natural predators - into a positive and, every Christmas, make 50 pensioners happy with a plucked and dressed goose for Christmas dinner?

Robert Waite,

Windmill Rise,

Holgate, York.

Updated: 10:47 Thursday, February 19, 2004