When deer manager Peter Littlejohn was assaulted, naturally he called the police. Little did he think that months later he would be without his guns, unable to manage the deer on his permissions, and struggling even to get a response from the police who grabbed his guns even though his assailant was found guilty.
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You couldn’t make it up. Darren Easton struggled to renew his certificates because Cambridgeshire Constabulary’s online form kept kicking him out, and he was stuck
Yorkshire gamekeepers James and Jono were astonished to be confronted by armed police, complete with helicopter, while heatherburning on the Upperwood estate on the edge