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Waterloo
Cup goes ahead
OVER 6,000 people turned out to support hare-coursing for the
Waterloo Cup, at Altcar, near Southport, the most important event
in the sport’s calendar.
The crowd was in defiant mood and refused to accept a government
proposal to ban the activity. In a show of solidarity, the Countryside
Alliance also organised a parade of hunting dogs.
Sam Butler, chairman of the alliance’s Campaign for Hunting,
warned the Government that it would face civil disobedience if
it went ahead with a coursing ban.
Alun Michael, the Rural Affairs Minister, condemned hare-coursing
and called on the pro-hunt lobby "to move on".
RSPCA inspectors monitoring the coursing said that at least nine
hares were killed in 43 races and the time taken for the dogs
to break the necks of the hares was between 11 and 27 seconds. |
