HAVING only had a couple of minutes to peruse the press before going to work, I noticed the headline 'Lean year for grouse' (August 10).

Does this mean it will be much more healthy for me to eat it - or grouse have, for some mysterious reason, learnt to dodge shotgun pellets?

Neil Jones,

Aldborough Way,

York.

Updated: 11:55 Friday, August 13, 2004