The Government is under pressure over its manifesto pledge to ban trail hunting as hunters gather for the traditional Boxing Day meeting.
Anti-hunting campaigners are urging them to deliver on the promise to ban trail hunting – a practice in which a scent is laid across the countryside for hounds and riders to follow as an alternative to banned fox hunting, but which has been criticised as a “smokescreen” for illegal activity.
The MoD had dished out 23 licences for both trail hunting across the last seasonPA
What do you think? Should trail hunting be banned in Britain?