Good morning. You may not have noticed, but there could be a battle going on over control of your local park.
No, it’s not one of the reenactments of the Battle of Hastings (that was last weekend, though). It’s a fight between the UK’s estimated 12 million dog owners – a number that swelled by about 1 million since the onset of the pandemic – and non-dog owners who have had enough of negotiating packs of unruly dogs being walked by professional walkers, stepping in the unmentionable and fearing a growing number of attacks.
