Hunting ban law after years of debate (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Hunting ban law after years of debate

11:48am Friday 26th November 2004 in News By Ruth Lythe

The huntsman's horn could soon be sounding for the final time over the Lake District fells after Parliament voted to ban hunting with dogs from February 2005.

Last week, after hundreds of hours of parliamentary debate, the Parliament Act was invoked to push a ban on hunting with dogs on to the statute books.

The law will now come into effect on February 18, 2005. But hunt supporters have vowed that the battle to save the activity is not yet over.

Regional director of the Countryside Alliance Tom Fell called the Government's tactics "ridiculous, dishonest and time consuming".

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