SINCE the historic day in November when 411 MPs voted to ban the hunting of wild animals with dogs, the hunting fraternity has continued to defy the will of Parliament and the majority wishes of the British people with its unabated persecution of hunted animals.
The high-profile Boxing Day hunts and the onset of the Waterloo Cup's three-day hare-coursing event, now taking place at Altcar, near Liverpool, are testimony to that.
Readers, concerned about the kind of country they would like to hand on to future generations, should write to Tony Blair in Downing Street, urging him to enact legislation to rid the UK of cruel country sports in the lifetime of this Parliament.
No EU country can call itself truly civilised until blood sports are consigned to its history books and the shooters who have made the skies over Europe so perilous for migratory birds are told in no uncertain terms by Brussels where to stick their guns.
N CATON, Mansfield Drive, Hoghton.
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