CORSHAM Police Court had their hands full this week when some feisty females appeared before the magistrates.

“There is nothing I want to say, I am not sorry for what I did. She asked for it and she got it,” Mrs Maud Young, of Lanhill, Chippenham, told the court, accused of assaulting Mrs Queenie Brinkworth of Red Houses, Biddestone.

Mrs Brinkworth stated that she was walking along the Bristol Road when she met Mrs Young who kept staring at her and giggling.

Mrs Brinkworth asked Mrs Young if she had her eyeful, whereupon Mrs Young rode her bicycle into Mrs Brinkworth and punched her on the nose, saying that next time she would “leave her a ---- dead one.”

Mrs Young was fined £1.

“Jane Butler and Emily Smith are sending you 2s 6d each for turnips,”

wrote two gipsy women summoned for stealing swedes growing at the Lowden Nurseries belonging to Glen & Son.

“If any more, will pay next time.

Yours sincerely.”

They were both fined 5s and Daniel Smith, the husband of one and father of the other, had to pay 15s for allowing six horses to stray on the highway.