If it is found that the farmer is telling the truth, then I fully suport his action in this case and any like it.
I would be interested in other thoughts
A COUPLE have been left ‘devastated’ after a farmer shot dead two of their dogs for ‘worrying his cattle’.
Susan and Tony Dracup, of Woodville Road, Hartshorne, lost Tilly, a two-year-old Beagle-like hound, and Suki, a one-year-old whippet cross, when they were killed by John Collier, of nearby Goseley Dale Farm, while being taken for a walk.
The 64-year-old shot the dogs from 40ft with his 16-bore shotgun after his wife, Audrey, allegedly saw them worrying his 15-strong herd of pedigree Charolais cattle, each worth more than £5,000.
Can,t say I am bothered either way
Nothing seems to make people more heated then discussing the pros and cons of hunting. Fox hunting is alive and kicking around Hay On Wye - at least four hunts span the immediate area - and in fact fox hunting is happening all over the countryside. Most city people I talk to think it is cruel and want it banned. Most country people think the opposite.......
My pony pricked up his ears and started to look about excitedly, and as I began to trot home I came across about 15 hounds, a jumble of vehicles and some men wearing Barbour-type jackets with flat caps and sticks. Very Down to Earth Powell and Pressberger.
The hounds were impressively polite and allowed my pony to walk down the lane unaccosted and I stopped to ask one gentleman what they were doing. "Cubbing", they answered.
Everyone round here knows what that is - rooting out the young foxes and preparing the hounds for the proper hunt. As I had just been in an outdoor riding menage littered with the droppings of over thirty foxes (each with big plumstones in them - they had obviously gorged themselves on Charlotte's plums the day before), I knew as well as the hunters that the area was teeming with foxes.
Nobody says much though. It's an official secret throughout the land - away from Westminster and all the townies - that fox hunting is going strong.
This was on the radio today.
Has this Country lost or loosing its respect for the dead, I feel very strongly about this one, I feel it very important that we show respect. Particularly for the living relatives, I feel it gives Comfort for the relatives if they know we care, this I think is very important that they know we still care.
Funeral directors say that generations of people are now unaware of traditional funeral etiquette. They have linked the rise in discourteous behaviour with the breakdown of respect in society that led to the summer's riots and looting.
A study by The Co-operative Funeralcare, which conducts over 100,000 funerals a year, found that 51 per cent of people are unaware that anyone working by the side of the street should stop work when a funeral cortege drives past. Four in ten pedestrians say that they no longer bow their heads as a sign of respect.
The Co-op said that almost a third of people aged between 18 and 44 are now totally unaware of the unwritten rules for funeral processions.
David Collingwood, national operations director at the Co-op, said: “There has been much talk since the riots this summer about attitudes and respect within society and we have seen a significant shift over the years away from people observing the unwritten rules of funeral etiquette.”
From here
Heard this one on radio two today, I can understand that some violent persons may need to be struck off and rightly so, but this seams to me that some gp's are going over the top.
Wondered what others here thought.....
A terminally-ill woman and her two daughters were struck off by their GP after one of the daughters, Miss F, a registered nurse, changed the battery on her mother's medication machine rather than wait for the district nurse.
The mother died a few weeks later and was said to have been "left distraught" by the decision to remove her from the list.
Miss F complained, saying the decision had never been properly explained and that it had been done at a hugely stressful time for the family.
The ombudsman upheld the complaint and the practice has since apologised.
More here
This has so far been an interesting and entertaining debate.
In my local town, Asda are planning a new supper-store.
The thing here is that no planning permission has yet been granted, yet ground work and foundations have begun. To do this they must be very confident they will get their permission to build or not worried about loosing the money they have already invested. I suspect the later, they can afford to loose the money should the planning fall through.
Which in my view means that not all these loop holes are open to all, but only to those that can afford to loose such sums!
Ok they maybe open to all but only some can afford to exploit them
No, we have, as yet, not been offered money for sex.
However we have played elaborate games where we have acted out fantasy's of such things
Very foolish I would suggest, 20 years in opposition and a few months in his new job, plonker!
I think you can stay on any site or your own land for 28 days before planning permission would be required
On the occasions that we have booked rooms our selves we have never asked for contributions, but every time our guest has offered half and we have always excepted.
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