HUNTING BAN TO STAY

The ban on hunting with dogs will stay for this year, despite assurances given by David Cameron that the 2004 Hunting Act would be repealed.

The decision is a blow to the Countryside Alliance, a charity funded to work on behalf of blood sports.

Meanwhile two hunt employees in Market Harborough have been convicted under the Act for digging out a fox for their employer’s hounds to chase. The action was initiated by the charity The League Against Cruel Sports and the two men were fined a total of £3,660.

There is a view that the hunts themselves should take proper responsibility for the actions of their employees and should also be punished, and much more severely.

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