On the subject of the menace of foxes, I can only say the problem in and around the Tooting Graveney area is awful.

Every weekend they throw a party, gorging on the rubbish people leave out too early and fighting and squealing into the small hours.

The following day we wake to carnage food strewn across the streets, feaces in the garden, and recently they have taken to digging up my newly planted bulbs.

I come from a rural area, and I can assure you that although we may have moved onto fox territories' in London, there must be a mass emigration from the country where food is scarce, to the cities where foxes seem to grow to double the size of rural foxes.

I have a call to arms. I know it is not strictly legal, but Tony's problem is surely only with rural hunting? How about we stage an urban hunt, dealing with the problem of excessive fox breeding and the littering of our streets.

CHERYL BOUTON, Mellison Road, Tooting

November 16, 2001 13:30