I COULD have offered to be put in the stocks outside Worcester Guildhall as a humble apology to the "hunting community".

This would have been in "penance" for daring to state that hunters breed and feed foxes for their sport.

However, sadly for Jon Burgess and his hunting community chums, the forelock-tugging is not about to commence.

My letter, referred to by Mr Burgess, described a nationwide network of artificial earths and the feeding of foxes by hunts.

In fact, the evidence of the illegal and dangerous practice of dumping animal carcases had been passed on to Trading Standards.

I hope Mr Burgess saw Channel 4 News on Wednesday, June 5.

There, once again, was an expose of a hunt found to have an artificial earth on its land with a supply of dead sheep nearby.

The breeding chamber was not ancient, as Mr Burgess always suggests they are, but was constructed with breeze blocks and plastic piping.

A KNITTEL,

Worcester.