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than £21,000. If you are going to appeal at the Crown Court, make sure you have learned legal opinion in your favour and that you are insured.

Today, I have an amicable understanding with the local police. We have an agreement that they will apply the minimum that the guidance — which is not law — advises and I will not ask for more. This means that, at worst, I am only mildly inconvenienced by the conditions and restrictions.

My standard advice to certificate holders is whenever the police ask for something unreasonable, ask them to put it in writing and state where it appears in an Act of Parliament or even guidance. This never happens. We should not be scared of the police because of previous victories. We do not live in a police state, we employ them and pay their wages. At the end, remember appeasement does not work. Neville Chamberlain proved that. Savvas Toufexis, director, Sportsman’s Association of Great Britain & Northern Ireland

I love the front cover of the 24 March issue (pictured right) but it did remind me of a certain Quentin Tarantino film.

Perhaps it should be titled Reservoir Gundogs? Martin Warren, Suffolk

daughters were targeted by poachers, who made threats to rape and kill them, or the soldier I knew who was a bag of nerves after his friend was killed when his Land Rover was blown up, and the next day survived when his also was blown up in Northern Ireland.

But squeamish stalkers? Oh, come on now. This claim is an insult to those who really suffer. P A Blackman, by email