‘In the present weather conditions lighting fires in Highbury Fields is criminal’

• IS Islington Council waiting for Highbury Fields to burst into flames before it bans lighting fires there?

Randomly-lit fires in grassy areas are dangerous at any time. In the present weather conditions, they are criminal.

A WATSON
Bryantwood Road, N7 

• Editor’s note: The council last week temp­orarily banned park barbecues.