Legal for Norfolk

SIR – As advised by my solicitor, I contacted Norfolk constabulary to obtain a crime number after the gates disappeared from a field on which I have a tenancy.

They replied thus: “The person or persons unknown who have removed your gates may intend to return them, and therefore we do not consider it necessary to issue a crime number.”

It would appear that in Norfolk anyone can feel free to take whatever they like, secure in the knowledge that if their intention is to return it, no crime has been committed. Mary Crofts

Dereham, Norfolk