ONE Hereford Times reader was prompted into prose by the extraordinary events of last week.

Tricia Sankey composed a long poem to articulate her own take on the crisis. This extract gives a flavour:

Then Gordon Brown and farmer power combined to bring the nation to its knees

As prophesied some weeks ago by John, Bishop of Hereford Diocese

When so much was done by so many to so few

And full circle justice was completed with this coup

So Daddy will you drive less, and mummy will you pay

For farmers to get extra for their food after today?