FESTIVE pub-goers are being urged to boycott a 'dirty dozen' hostelries which saboteurs claim are used by a controversial East Lancashire hunting group.
The North-West Hunt Saboteurs Association has published the names of pubs where it says the Holcombe Hunt holds regular meetings.
They believe they have massive public opinion behind them - claiming less than 20 per cent of people believe fox-hunting should continue to be legal.
And now they want people out and about over Christmas to boycott the pubs, many of which are popular lunch spots for people out for weekend drives in the East Lancashire countryside.
The Holcombe Hunt, whose huntmasters live in Brindle and Haslingden, will be holding its annual Rivington hunt on Boxing Day morning.
Saboteurs are expected to be out in force at the event. They have a long history of clashing with the Holcombe Hunt - even taking dead foxes to the front doors of some hunt leaders.
The hunting lobby claims nearly 70pc of people believe that hunting should be allowed to continue.
Pendle MP Gordon Prentice is one of the most outspoken critics of foxhunting. He has been included in a pack of playing cards distributed by the pro-hunting Countryside Association along with other figures who deprive people of civil liberties such as Saddam Hussein.
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