THERE needs to be a thorough investigation into the health problems people in Avonmouth are suffering. It needs to establish whether they are linked to the production of woodchip from the Stobart Biomass plant.

And if they are then the plant needs to be banned permanently from producing woodchip.

The people of Avonmouth deserve to be protected. Their health is no less important than people in Clifton. And imagine what the outcry would be if Clifton residents were suffering in the same way as those in Avonmouth.

But even if the health problems are not related, the Stobart Biomass plant must be forced to either clean up its act or be shut down.

It is totally unacceptable in the 21st century for streets and houses to be covered in industrial waste.

And people in Avonmouth have had to put up with this since this plant opened.

The value of a plant like this in recycling material that is then used to help produce electricity is completely lost if, in the process, people's homes, lives and the very air they breathe is blighted.

Recycling is important in today's world, surely no one would argue with that, but what is happening in Avonmouth is simply too high a price to pay.