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Some United staff members cruelly labelled the Portuguese 'Alan Partridge' after Steve Coogan's BBC comedy character, who lived in the Linton Travel Tavern.

It described the deaths as a “national disgrace” and blamed the majority of incidents on rogue gamekeepers trying to protect stocks of pheasant, partridge and grouse on countryside shooting estates.

The organisation said that was because gamekeepers are trying to protect their grouse, pheasants and partridge - and the profits they bring.

"Unfortunately we do not have that in the rest of the UK. We need to see wider licensing particularly for grouse moors in England and pheasant and partridge shooting in the lowlands of the UK."

"Steel town - it's in our DNA," said former Port Talbot steelworker Steven Partridge.