ROGER Keable’s letter (ViewPoints, March 25) suggesting that potholes be filled in with chewing gum which covers many pavements is probably making a widely-believed mistake.
What appeared to be chewing gum is, in fact, a lichen, appropriately called chewing gum lichen. It is quite harmless and won’t stick to the bottom of footwear – unlike the real thing.
Wrigley & Co is innocent.
Cliff Harris, Church Way, Iffley, Oxford
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