The town centre has long been a rather fragile economic area, it needs support not competition like this.

"Renting art is a fragile area in terms of the larger corporate structure," she added.

It wants time to weigh the risks of drilling in fragile areas against the benefits.

Could some of these environmentally fragile areas be placed off limits without threatening energy needs?

Or why the Government should be encouraging construction in such fragile areas.

And of course these efforts must be undertaken carefully so that further damage to fragile areas will not occur.

Sometimes tour operators become the bad guys in discussions of tourism and its impact on fragile areas.

Meanwhile in the most fragile areas, the rail bed must be elevated like a bridge.

Along with mills on the borders, a fragile area, they are losing orders of £1 million.

The next year it declared the colony a fragile area.