MR Pinney of the Countryside Alliance is perfectly entitled to his own views. However, that does not give him the right to speak for the rest of us.

How dare you presume to speak for me, Mr Pinney. I am perfectly capable of speaking for myself.

In fact, on the issue of fox hunting, the opposite of what you say is true.

Together with the overwhelming majority of people, I am not disinterested. I am 100 per cent behind Mike Foster in his pursuit of banning the barbaric practice of hunting with dogs.

I am told that the agonised screams of a fox being torn to pieces by dogs can be heard from two fields away.

In the centre of Worcester on Saturday there was a "gentleman" boasting that he and his father went out with high-powered rifles and shot four foxes a night because a fox had killed some of the pheasants they were rearing.

I would like to know whether these pheasants were being reared as pets and kept until they died of old age? I think not.

MRS MARION J LARGE,

Worcester.