Border Dumfries

Thousands of wild geese on the Solway coast in Dumfries and Galloway have already died during the Avian Influenza outbreak.

Mark Shrimpton, 62, is now disputing the fine from Police Scotland and insists he would rather have his day in court than cough up the fee.

The poet - who lived in Dumfries - was advised that London readers "wouldn't understand" works written in Scots.