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I WAS troubled by recent reports of angry sheep farmers swearing vengeance against foxes after lambs went missing. Some provincial papers aired their grievances. Unfortunately this kind of scare-mongering results in mass killing of foxes. The animal is accused of a 'crime' it rarely commits and thousands of foxes are shot or trapped when this lynch mob mentality takes hold in the countryside. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PAPER TRAIL OF THE NIGHT: Why are the contestants on Race Across The World (BBC1) so careless with their passports? In Japan, James left his in a bag on the ground. Then his sister Betty lost hers on a bus in Malaysia. If they keep doing that, how do they expect to get home? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CONTESTANTS seeking the briefcase containing £250,000 in Stephen Mangan's The Fortune Hotel, which began on ITV last night, are in for a letdown. Random bag thefts in Grenada, where the series is filmed, posed too much of a risk says editor Ben Wilson. 'We only had £5,000 in £50 notes on top in the briefcase. The rest was paper.' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

that she had tried to influence the Justice Secretary over the judge in her husband's trial, it was already public knowledge that, after her husband's conviction, she had written on parliamentaryheaded paper to Dame Kathryn Thirlwall, Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales, and Dame Victoria Sharp, President of the Queen's Bench Division, in a move which the House of Commons Committee on Standards said represented 'an attempt improperly to influence judicial proceedings'. She was suspended from Parliament as a result. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JOHN Swinney has been accused of 'rank hypocrisy' after pledging to continue forcing civil servants to write independence papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

on paper their personalities are poles apart, but TV presenters Rob Rinder and Rylan Clark have gone from being distant acquaintances who share the same divorce lawyer to enjoying what they jokingly refer to as 'the perfect platonic marriage'. And it was filming their refreshingly raw new three-part TV series that brought them together. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On paper their personalities are poles apart, but TV presenters Rob Rinder and Rylan Clark have gone from being distant acquaintances who share the same divorce lawyer to enjoying what they jokingly refer to as 'the perfect platonic marriage'. And it was filming their refreshingly raw new three-part TV series that brought them together. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DURING my first trip back to Australia since my parents died, I read in the papers that even though Prince Harry was in the UK this week, neither his father nor his brother could find time in their busy diaries to see him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JOHN Swinney appointed his main leadership rival as Deputy First Minister in a desperate attempt to bring together warring factions in the SNP. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]