News Round Up

by Patrick O'Connor

THE Independent carries a story claiming that the managers of the centuries-old Minchinhampton and Rodborough Commons near Stroud in Gloucestershire are considering daubing reflective paint on the 500 cattle grazing there to make them glow in the beam of approaching headlights!

The article says that motorists would see not a whole cow, but just an “alien glow” where the paint was which would persuade them to slow down and avoid hitting the animal.