Anger at hare-coursing TV chef (From York Press)

just how would the hare get ripped to pieces when the dog was muzzled?

What a disgusting specimen of a human being is a fat chef called Clarissa Dickson-Wright

She's a disgusting specimen without doing anything at all ..........YAK

I take it the letter writer got a good view of it all, from their high horse.

Typical letter from a "do gooder" that obviously doesn't know what they are talking about.

Hares are a flight animal (like horses) and developed to run very fast and can do so for a long time. Greyhounds can run even faster but only for about 30 secs.

The Hare nearly always gets away, and I doubt if it and is never "ripped to pieces" .

The main crux of the LACS case seemed to be that although the hares were being chased towards the guns, the Guns didn't shoot them ! Are to take it that LACS would have preferred the Hares to be shot rather than let free ?

Infact most landowners who allowed hare coursing allowed the Hares to thrive on their land and protected them from poachers for that very reason. Now most will end up getting shot and poached.

sayitasitis wrote:
Typical letter from a "do gooder" that obviously doesn't know what they are talking about. Hares are a flight animal (like horses) and developed to run very fast and can do so for a long time. Greyhounds can run even faster but only for about 30 secs. The Hare nearly always gets away, and I doubt if it and is never "ripped to pieces" . The main crux of the LACS case seemed to be that although the hares were being chased towards the guns, the Guns didn't shoot them ! Are to take it that LACS would have preferred the Hares to be shot rather than let free ? Infact most landowners who allowed hare coursing allowed the Hares to thrive on their land and protected them from poachers for that very reason. Now most will end up getting shot and poached.

sayitasitis. OK, according to your analysis, country folk will only look after OUR wildlife if they are allowed to abuse it at their will??? I'm sure that many will contest that view??

I was too heavy on gas, says TV chef

18 Aug 2000

One of the Two Fat Ladies of TV cookery fame, Clarissa Dickson Wright, yesterday apologised to a court for speeding and said she must have been too heavy on the accelerator. The celebrity chef and TV personality had faced a warrant for her arrest last month after she failed to respond to a summons for contravening alleged motoring offences. But yesterday at Forfar Sheriff Court, the self-confessed former alcoholic admitted a charge of speeding in her Saab on the Dundee to Aberdeen road near Forfar and told the sheriff: ''I trod too hard on the accelerator.'' Ms Dickson Wright, 53, a former barrister who made her name as one of the Two Fat Ladies with the late Jennifer Patterson, was also charged with having driven without a licence and without insurance. She admitted the speeding charge, which happened on March 2 at Quilkoe on the A940 dual carriageway, when she drove at 95mph, 25mph over the limit. She denied the other charges. In a letter to the court, Ms Dickson Wright said she had been driving since 1964 and added: ''I can only apologise. I do not normally speed but I had just transferred to the Saab after driving a heavy estate car for a fortnight. ''Having gone through the Forfar 50s (the speed limit on the dual carriageway was reduced after a number of accidents) I surmise I trod too hard on the accelerator.'' Sentence on the speeding charge was deferred until an intermediate date of October 12, and trial was set on the other charges for November 2 . When she failed to respond to the charges last month, a warrant was issued for her arrest, but the warrant was later withdrawn. Ms Dickson Wright, from Inveresk, Midlothian, is a confidante of Scotland's premier duke, the Duke of Hamilton, and is responsible for the catering at the duke's Lennoxlove home at Musselburgh.

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