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Brigitte Wins Right to Pick
After a four-year legal battle, the U.K. Forestry Commission has conceded that Brigitte Tee-Hillman does have the right to carry on harvesting and selling the mushrooms as she has done for some 30 years. Mrs Tee-Hillman, 64, was arrested in the Forest in November 2002 for stealing wild mushrooms. Now she has license to pick mushrooms in whatever quantities during her lifetime. It is believed to be the first time such a license has been granted in Britain.
Her solicitor Clive Sutton said: “We would have agreed to this right from day one. Mrs Tee-Hillman has been granted everything she personally wants. It is a tremendous victory for the rights of the individual.”
German-born Mrs Tee-Hillman, who runs Mrs Tee’s Wild Mushrooms business in Lymington, told the Daily Echo: “I’m highly delighted. Some things are worth fighting for. I have been worrying about it for four years. But in the end justice has been done.”
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I am a big fan on Mrs Tees mushrooms, they are top quality and I for one want her to be able to continue being able to harvest wild mushrooms. I promote her site on my own site wildmushroomsonline.co.uk
well done Brigitte on your win!