Reading between the lines, they may as well have said, 'keep your nose out, you meddling bastard. We don't really give a toss about the white horse (except as a brand) or your opinion'.

Which is not very nice.

Thank god WE care!
jx

"This temporary promo was arranged with the complete coopertaion of the National
Trust and everyone responsible for the Uffington Horse site. "

Yeah, until they realised they'd pissed off the membership. Nice spell-checker by the way.

"It is invaluable
promotion for this tourist attraction that depends on visitors for essential
maintainance."

Oh, so in a way Channel Four are the saviours of the White Horse!
Well in that case let's go for the really big money. Where's the number for MacDonalds?

"As such I don't think it can be classed as vandalism"

Or as Reagan puts it in Two Tribes (Annihilation): "You may pronounce us guilty a thousand times over, but the Goddess of the Eternal Court of History will smile and tear to tatters the brief of the
state prosecutor and the sentence of this court, for She acquits us"

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/SongUnid/C5D43C85278A7D6D482568BF0026968B

"but I will certainly pass your comments on to our marketing team."

Which will achieve what?

On a lighter note, I am finding doing without Big Brother far easier than I imagined, and I really was hooked (We are talking watching them sleep here...sad but true).

Are they still using the Uffington footage now?