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Old 13-09-2004, 10:59 PM
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades writes:
| |
| | anyone know if it is legal to dig wild horse radish from banksides
and
| | hedgerows /
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| It used to be, until a recent poxious government introduced the
| equivalent of the Norman game laws for wild plants. Just don't
| get caught.
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| I don't think horserubbish counts - it's an alien species, and can be
| treated as a weed.

Not according to that Act of Rights Theft, it can't!


Regards,
Nick Maclaren

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Unlikely to be theft (but possible), but it is illegal to uproot any wild
plant under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 see
http://www.habitat.org.uk/statprot.htm