Recycling bins located in the car park behind the Shilbottle Casino have once again fallen prey to attacks by vandals. In what is described as a copycat incident an unknown individual placed eleven Long-eared Owls in the pork scratchings skip sometime in the early hours of Thursday morning. “It’s very upsetting” claimed Casino proprietor Ivor Pundamince “This is the third time vandals have struck in the last two weeks. Other incidents have included four frozen legs of lamb placed in the onion skin skip in the shape of a cross and a large quantity of Bourbon biscuits found in the container designated for dead wasps. Local Police believe these are deliberate acts designed to discredit the Casinos involvement in recycling in the village. After the Council withdrew funding for the site last year,a campaign to reinstate the skips, spear- headed by the Northumberland Glimmer, was only resolved recently when the Casino owners decided to fund the site themselves with some financial backing from the Grief, Brindle and Lurcher Group. Mr. Pundamince said “we will be increasing security at the site