Do the Countryside Alliance, or, as I like to call them, the Tally Ho! Brigade, really think people believe they have the countryside and its animals' interest at heart?

When they put a dead horse with a wooden stake through its heart and two dead calves in the Old Steine, Brighton, for adults and children to witness such blatant animal cruelty, they have no argument.

They say the hunt is about the chase, so what's wrong with drag hunting?

They really are driven by blood lust. They have shot themselves in the foot this time. The sooner a total ban is enforced, the better.

R E Sharp

-North Lane, Portslade