TWO legal matters particularly took my attention this week: the first regarded the proposed ban on hunting with dogs.

This has elicited various statements to the effect that the police will find it impossible to enforce a total ban. I am sure that the police need have no fears that their resources will be stretched further. I am confident that the decent upstanding people who go hunting will have no hesitation in ceasing their activities once the bill that the commons passed so overwhelmingly has become law.

The second matter that caught my attention was the case reported in the Journal (July 3) regarding the burgled ironmonger in Moreton-in-Marsh who praised the swift response of the police in attending the scene of the crime. I am sure that this commendable efficiency had nothing to do with the fact that the victim of the crime happens to be a local district councillor and I fully expect that the rest of us ordinary folk will receive an equally swift response when we report a crime.

SAM BERRINGTON, Rye Close, Bourton-on-the-Water.