IF THEY decide to frack so be it.

Great Britain needs an independent source of natural gas considering the mayhem in the Middle East and Putin’s sabre rattling.

It would be selfish to think fracking elsewhere is OK but God forbid if it happens locally.

As far as I’m concerned they should be free to frack away; we have to take the odd risk or face a cold, dark future.

PHILIP SAMENGO-TURNER

Cirencester