If the threat to the Ozone Layer makes you fume you can express your views in print and win £3,000 by putting into rhyme your reasons.

Anchor Books have launched a poetry competition to coincide with the United Nations International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer this month.

Budding poets can enter two pieces of work of no more than 30 lines each. Send your work to: Think Green! Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive, Woodston, Peterborough, PE2 9JX. The closing date in September 29.