Dog owners must think of others
Political editor when I am there, I bought a copy of La Voix du Nord.
This is a newspaper for the people of northern France.
In Saturday’s edition, there is an article quoting Xavier Bertrand, who is campaigning for the removal of the Le Touquet accord of February 4, 2003.
Mr Bertrand is the president of the Calais region, influential and widely supported.
In a nutshell, if the accord is repealed, the border controls shall return to Dover/Folkestone and not Calais/Dunkerque, which could mean southern England having to accommodate a ‘Jungle’ migrant camp like the one in France now.
I do not think this will happen soon, but with enough campaigning and agitation it may come to pass in a few years.
I hope the people of Kent who voted Leave are happy with these consequences. RD Boston Lambourne Drive, Kings Hill Supplements editor Business editor It is a major problem today with dog owners not taking responsibility for their dogs when taking them out.
I have experienced major trauma being savaged by a dog (our own dog, in fact) when I was younger. It took all my willpower and mental strength to move on from the experience and not let it stop me from leading my life the way I wanted to.
One of my great passions is walking, but it took a lot of hard work on my part not to let that dreadful experience stop me from walking where I knew there would be dogs.
This is what happened to me and it is not a one-off.
I was quite happily walking along a public right of way through a farmer’s field near where I live to West Malling.
All of a sudden I saw someone in the distance on the footpath with a big dog. Then my heart went in my mouth when I saw the dog start running and I saw it was not on a lead.
The dog was all over me – luckily it didn’t hurt me physically as it just seemed overwhelmed by excitement.
Then finally the silly woman owner arrived – walking (not running, so obviously not bothered).