I WAS surprised to read in Bill Wiggin’s column that “some urban people” are demanding rights in the countryside (View from Westminster, Hereford Times, October 23).
Whatever can he mean? Perhaps they are demanding the right to be able to make tea and use the toilet in isolated farmhouses or catch and slaughter sheep in order to barbecue them in the middle of a cornfield.
Surely he can’t mean that they are asking to walk footpaths which are safe and well waymarked. That already is a right as laid down in statute, and asking landowners to ignore the rule of law would be a remarkable stance to take, even for a Conservative MP.
So, obviously, that can’t be what he means. Perhaps he would enlighten us as to what these demands actually are.
DAVID GRACE Dilwyn
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