JOHN Blunt in his article "Campaign overkill" (LET, August 11) summed up the bloodsports fiasco in a straightforward, down-to-the-knuckle way.

He doesn't pull punches. He sums up and says what so many of us believe - that fox-hunting, grouse shooting, hare coursing and the like, should be outlawed.

He, like myself, is subject to scrutiny and the inevitable nit-picking when touching on a ticklish subject.

If, as suggested by Keith Ellel (Letters, August 11) it is something too trivial or minor to be decided by the government, which, he suggests, has more important issues to decide, who then will judge the rights or wrongs of the case?

What poll did Mr Ellel carry out and what numbers were involved - to come up with 70 per cent not interested?

The bloodsport problem will always be there until a decision is reached.

By whom? - the government, of course.

K SOWERBUTTS (Mr), Southwood Drive, Baxenden.

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