Digby Driver

Digby Driver is the central antagonist turned anti-hero of Richard Adams' 1978 novel The Plague Dogs, and a minor character in its 1982 animated film adaptation, where he is a female reporter named Lynn Driver. He is an unscrupulous journalist who wants to stir up trouble for Rowf and Snitter so he could sell his newspapers. However, he eventually redeems himself when he learned the truth about Alan Wood being the owner of Snitter and how Ann Moss sold him to ARSE.

She was voiced by Penelope Lee in the film.

History
Digby Driver writes wildly sensationalist articles with only the sketchiest grounding in fact and using blackmail to extort background information about the bubonic plague bio-weapon research at ARSE.

After the two dogs escaped from the lab and started killing livestock with the help of a local fox known as "The Tod", Driver brings rumors about the dogs, causing panic towards the local citizens. He does not care about the truth behind it, he only wants to stir up trouble so he could sell his newspapers. Early in the book, after Stephen Powell quits his job as a research scientist, he meets up with Driver and chats freely about his work in response to his questioning.

Later, he eventually moves the government to deploy the army to exterminate the dogs after the dogs kill Geoffrey Westcott and involves the army. The dogs kill the Tod, but the dogs make it to the sea, where they are chased by the scientists by helicopter until they try to escape the army into the sea.

Meanwhile, Driver is angered and disgusted to learn that Snitter's owner didn't die and that his sister sold him to the ARSE. His anger over this surprises even himself. He then makes up for the dogs to have them reunited with their long-lost owner at sea. William Harbottle and the Under Secretary want to shoot the dogs, but Major Rose and Digby Driver confront them and force them to leave.

Trivia

 * In the film, he was replaced by a female reporter named Lynn Driver and she wasn't portrayed as a selfish jerk like her book counterpart, although she did publish false rumors about the plague-carrying dogs.
 * Although Dr. Boycott is the main antagonist, Digby drives the plot of the film as he was responsible for most of the dogs' predicaments and the belief of them carrying the plague.