WHISPERING SMITH: Snaring, Christopher Robin and bums on seats...

I was extremely disappointed by councillor Dendle's comments in last week's Gazette about the continued practice of snaring animals on Norfolk Estate.
By The Newsroom
Published 13th Nov 2016, 15:00 BST
Updated 16th Nov 2016, 16:49 BST

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Chris Adam SmithChris Adam Smith
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I suggest the good councillor log onto the National Anti Snaring Campaign (NASC) website and see some of the horrific results of this barbaric practice for himself – not pretty viewing but an experience that may lead to a change of heart but, in truth, I doubt that it will.

It pains me greatly the way many landowners or land managers nationally treat our sacred wildlife, wiping out any animal they see as a supposed threat under the catch all guise of ‘conservation’ or ‘land management’ (the usual euphemisms for the right to kill animals or predatory birds).

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To destroy our wildlife in order to continue the very weird and archaic practise of raising game birds that they may be shot in the single-minded pursuit of profit is not something we Brits should be proud of.

2,000 local people have demanded this barbaric practice be halted, but again I doubt that it will be – money doesn’t talk in the countryside, it shouts.

If they raised pheasants, partridge or so-called ‘game fish’ in the Hundred Acre Wood even Pooh Bear would be in trouble – then what would have happened to my namesake?

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I was a stalwart supporter of the Windmill Cinema but now not so much.

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I waited for The Magnificent Seven, I Saw the Light, The Bone Tomahawk and Hell or High Water, but they failed to appear.

Instead it is seemingly endless showings of The Beatles, the J.K. Rowling spin-off Magnificent Beasts and Bridget Jones’s Baby with its one pony big knicker joke!

I had hoped, foolishly I suppose, that the Windmill would be for all – even ‘my kind’ of moviegoer – but I am told by a member of staff there that such movies are not popular in Littlehampton so it’s Chichester for me or wait for the DVDs.

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