This week, The Milford Mercury published a letter from Theresa Thom who alleges she witnessed a great act of cruelty to fish near their offices.

Being a newcomer to the area, but formerly a Trowbridge resident, I keep up with the news from Wiltshire on www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk, which publishes the fellow Newsquest paper, the Wiltshire Times.

I was surprised to learn in a letter published in your September 6 edition that the same person witnessed a similar act of cruelty to fish near your offices in Trowbridge.

I wonder how many newspaper editors across Britain have been taken in by this apparent fraudulent letter.

I thought there was something fishy with the letter as it mentions that hunting with dogs has been banned in this country.

Have I missed something?

What do the Countryside Alliance think of that?

That has only occurred in Scotland!

Andrew C Lye,

Haverfordwest,

Pembrokeshire.