The air around the Law is probably the purest in Dundee due to the trees as the leaves absorb carbon dioxide and they breathe out pure oxygen.

It should also be remembered that carbon dioxide is the cause of global warming.

Apart from purifying the air the trees and shrubs provide essential wildlife habitat for all kinds of birds, deer, frogs, newts, etc. and to hear the birds singing in the morning is a joy.

Before trimming your hedge and shrubs in the garden spend 10 minutes looking inside the hedge and shrubs for birds nests as they often have young chicks at this time of year. — Wildlife Lover.

[Vance Randolph collected this song in Arkansas in 1920 from a man who reportedly learned it from his father-in-law, “who had often entertained the James and Younger boys in his cabin”.

Jesse James was a lad who killed many a man

He robbed the Glendale train;

He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor

He’d a hand and a heart and a brain.

Poor Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life,

Three children, they were brave;

But that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard

Has laid poor Jesse in his grave.

It was Robert Ford, that dirty little coward;

I wonder how he does feel

For he ate of Jesse’s bread and he slept in Jesse’s bed

Then laid poor Jesse in his grave.

Poor Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life,

Three children, they were brave;

But that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard

Has laid poor Jesse in his grave.

Jesse was a man, a friend to the poor

He never would see a man suffer pain,

And with his brother Frank he robbed the Chicago bank,

And stopped the Glendale train.

Poor Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life,

Three children, they were brave;

But that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard

Has laid poor Jesse in his grave.

It was his brother Frank that robbed the Gallatin bank,

And carried the money from the town;

It was in this very place that they had a little race,

For they shot Captain Sheets to the ground.

Poor Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life,

Three children, they were brave;

But that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard

Has laid poor Jesse in his grave.

They went to the crossing not very far from there,

And there they did the same;

With the agent on his knees, he delivered up the keys

To the outlaws, Frank and Jesse James.

Poor Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life,

Three children, they were brave;

But that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard

Has laid poor Jesse in his grave.

It was on Saturday night, Jesse was at home

Talking with his family brave,

Robert Ford came along like a thief in the night

And laid poor Jesse in his grave.

Poor Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life,

Three children, they were brave;

But that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard

Has laid poor Jesse in his grave

.

The people held their breath

When they heard of Jesse’s death

And wondered how he ever came to die.

It was one of the gang called little Robert Ford

He shot poor Jesse on the sly.

Poor Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life,

Three children, they were brave;

But that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard

Has laid poor Jesse in his grave.

This song was made by Billy Gashade,

As soon as the news did arrive;

He said there was no man with the law in his hand

Who could take Jesse James when alive.

Poor Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life,

Three children, they were brave;

But that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard

Has laid poor Jesse in his grave.]

Last year, more that 15,500 people across the country volunteered to give a boost to their local environment by collecting 7000 bags of litter, planting 4000 trees and cleaning the equivalent of 7km of rivers.

The campaign is even making £50 grants available to help kick-start 900 green projects throughout Britain. To sign up to your project and be eligible for a grant visit: www.csv.org.uk/actionearth. — Charlie Dimmock (Gardener and TV Presenter), CSV, Pentonville Road, London.

Hundreds of Assyrian Christian towns and villages, with churches and monasteries dating back to the first century, were destroyed under Saddam’s “Arabisation” policy. The Anfal campaign included a plan to exterminate them.

Letter writer Christian Socialist decries the faith of the US President.

While acknowledging the failures of the Bush administration, it’s also important to remember that one of Saddam’s most trusted advisers during his 35-year reign of terror was Tariq Aziz, a Christian. — Fair Comment.