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Countryside in uproar as Gov accelerates plan to ban trail hunting

Labour has opened a long-awaited public consultation to speed up its key manifesto pledge to ban trail hunting

Chris Brayford
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Baroness Sue Hayman said: "We pledged to ban trail hunting in our manifesto and that is exactly what we intend to do. The nature of trail hunting makes it difficult to ensure wild and domestic animals are not put at risk of being killed or injured - that is clearly unacceptable."
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Baroness Sue Hayman said: "We pledged to ban trail hunting in our manifesto and that is exactly what we intend to do. The nature of trail hunting makes it difficult to ensure wild and domestic animals are not put at risk of being killed or injured - that is clearly unacceptable."

Rural and farming communities have pledged to fight back against plans to ban trail hunting in England and Wales after the Government said the activity has been used as a smokescreen to hunt wild animals...

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