THERE was great rejoicing by the dogs - barks, excited yelps and wuffs - when they won the day at a local park!

The ‘No Dogs’ ban had been newly lifted, while an assortment of four-legged pets scampered wildly on an old bowling green.

Reader Ray Sheen noticed this when strolling in a St Helens park. He’d spotted a workman pottering with a sign, attached to railings around the once-lush green.

Now rendered obsolete, this notice said: ‘No Dogs Allowed on the Bowling Green.’ Meanwhile, over his shoulder Ray, of Vincent Street, St Helens, spotted half-a-dozen pooches happily tearing around the green with their owners looking on.

“I said to the man taking the sign down that it would have made a great camera shot”, says Ray. “He was just unfastening the sign and the dogs were already jumping the gun!

“He told me the council had decided to let the dogs have it for their exercise area, as the bowling green was in such a state that it would cost too much to put it right.”

Ray observed: “Then the dogs have won!”

And the workman replied, “‘Yes.”

In the pop song it goes something like, ‘Who Let the Dogs Out?’ In this case, it’s now Who Let the Dogs In!

And as Ray ankled off, he is positive he heard the dogs rejoicing their victory with a triumphant woof-woof.