FOWL PLAY ON ALLOTMENTS

Chickens have been stolen from the Grammar School Road allotments site, and the matter has been reported to Brigg police.
That prompted a tenant to request Brigg Town Council to make the site more secure, but he/she has been told the cost of fencing round the area would be far too prohibitive, when considering the modest income generated from annual rentals.
Brigg Blog subsequently asked for details of how made birds had been stolen, but the council was reluctant to reveal further details, following the issue being raised (briefly) at a meeting of the property and services committee, in the Angel Suite, which we attended.
Publicity and further information, it was argued, might alert other wrongdoers to the situation.
The other side of the coin, of course, is by airing the matter in public, Brigg folk who might be approached by chicken-rustlers to buy birds may be wary of doing so, having read of the thefts.
It should be stressed not all allotment-holders keep chickens. The majority just grow their own veg.
Next time we speak to Insp Brett Rutty (pictured), head of Brigg police, we will ask him whether inquiries into the chicken-rustling have proved successful. It's very unlikely Brett's team will be able to obtain enough evidence to get a prosecution in this case. For the evidence might well have been consumed by now!

PS It's not that many months ago we reported on topsoil being stolen from Brigg allotments. As far as we know, that was an isolated incident, and there have been no other reports of thieves 'dishing the dirt'!