Sir.-I would like to thank Joe Robertson for his letter in last Friday's Gazette, regarding fox hunting ban.

For a change, I am in agreement with him on this issue.

I expect that he, like me, will decline this kind invitation from Luke Axel-Berg (in the same Gazette issue) to attend the meet at the Fur and Feathers in Herriard on Monday.

I think "Fur and Feathers" just about sums it up.

If I were to attend, the traditional cry of "Yoicks" may well be followed by the cry of something worse. I don't wish anybody any real harm but I do love it when they fall off.

Come on, Luke, the usefulness of the hunt went out with the invention of the motor car. Witness a 50-mile early morning drive and count the number of foxes' bodies on the road.

Sorry, I've still got a life - have you?

-Bill Yalden, Hawthorn Way, Basingstoke.