If you go to Europe, there are environmental people everywhere. I don’t live in Europe, so for me wearing fur is not a big problem. If I lived here, maybe I would change; there are more environmentally friendly people here. I’m not saying that I am not environmentally friendly – I know it is not a very good thing to kill animals to keep someone warm, but everyone has to survive, everyone has their views.

p>GRACE HODGESON The fur that I have is kidskin, but in the country that I got it from, it’s a by-product I wouldn’t buy fur unless it was. I’m anti the way fur is farmed, because I know what goes on and it isn’t very nice. It’s different if it’s a by-product from what people are eating. I’m not worried at all about what people’s opinions are about me on the street, because if they ask me I’ll tell them.

People are against fur because of the farming: if they understand where my fur is from, they’ll understand why I wear it. CAROL JONES I got this from Marks & Spencer, it looks real but is fake. I do have a nice fur collar which I wear, so I wear fur but I am not extremely pro or anti it. I know I wouldn’t buy an all-fur coat, but I am happy wearing something a little bit smaller.. Donnie Johnson, a 6ft 7in American forward due to sign for Leicester Riders last season, will finally make his debut against Birmingham Bullets on Saturday after replacing Jamal Faulkner at the Loughborough University-based club.

We’ve got some big guys but our athleticism inside has not been good enough.”. On the boardwalk here they are getting ready for a fight and yesterday morning, when the obese gulls were still picking at the debris from the night before, Audley Harrison and his now tiny retinue went for a slow run along the dilapidated seafront. However, a few people who count will be watching and, in many ways, this is the most important fight so far in Harrison’s turbulent career because he has to impress to keep the Americans interested before he steps up in class next year.Harrison, 31, arrived late on Tuesday night after spending two weeks sparring at Barry’s gym in Las Vegas under the constant and watchful eye of both Kenny Croom and Thel Torrence, the two trainers who so far have not yet been criticised for Harrison’s performances “Audley is a different type of heavyweight. It takes time to understand the way he does things,” said Croom after yesterday’s light run.According to Croom, the days in the Vegas gym only reinforced the thoughts and feelings that he shares with Torrence about Harrison’s potential. Harrison sparred nearly 70 rounds with two partners during two intensive weeks and yesterday as he chased the slower of the ambling gulls on the rattling boards he looked a lot slimmer than he has done in the past.Harrison’s seven victories so far have received mixed reviews and it is a fact that both the viewing figures on the BBC and the live gates have dropped off but, not surprisingly, everybody involved with the Olympic champion insists that all is going to plan.