Ritchie pitch wins B&B for shoot guests
CRIME filmmaker Guy Ritchie can now provide B& B for wealthy guests shooting on his estate.
The local council agreed the move for Ritchie’s £9million Ashgrove Farmstead, Tollard Royal, Wilts.
It received a document stressing that the estate had to provide accommodation the day before and after a shoot to “appeal to the international wealthy”.
It said: “A day on a premium estate now costs more than £15,000 and for that the standard of accommodation, food, game condition, the quality and variety of drives needs to be of an ever increasing standard.”
Ritchie, 50, Madonna’s former husband, directed 1998 comedy crime film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Charity The UK Pack Project is believed to have made substantial donations of money raised through its own Facebook appeals.
A source claims Rainbow Shelter took donations totalling at least £11,000 from kind-hearted members of the public.
It has previously held an online auction to help fund bills and rent on its Facebook page.
But as soon as Katrina and Helen arrived at the shelter, they say they realised it was far from “safe”.
Katrina, who had saved up all her Christmas and pocket money for the 10-day trip last April, which cost £1,000 between them, says: “The animals were feral and some were being kept in a freezing cold yard.
“The shelter was in an awful state of disrepair.”
She and her mum were so concerned about one dog – who they say had a weeping, infected eye socket – they adopted her themselves.
They sent her to another local rescue shelter, paid vet bills to treat her infection and had her transported to the UK.
After they got back to Britain, Katrina and Helen then alerted an animal rescue group on Facebook – The Good Guide To Romanian Dog Rescue – to conditions at Rainbow Shelter.
Five volunteers from the group went on a rescue mission in January. They said what greeted them was “beyond imagination”.
A spokeswoman for the page, who wants to remain anonymous, said: “Many of the dead animals looked as if other dogs