In Britain's very hush-hush rocket research station in Buckinghamshire, scientists were hard at work. Surrounded by an elaborate system of guards and barbed wire, the station was supposedly spyproof. Last week a scientist glanced out of his window, saw two hounds tear a fox to pieces in one of the rocket pits. Then, to his amazement, two pink-coated members of the Bicester hunt raced across the enclosure to the yelping hounds. Fox, hounds, horses and riders had entered through a 100-yard gap in the barbed wire.
Plant authorities refused to hand over the fox's brush, buried it at the point of kill....
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