THE barbaric sport of hare-coursing continues despite Labour's promise to ban all forms of killing animals with dogs for entertainment.
Never mind tradition; hare-coursing has no place in a civilised society. We can't call ourselves a nation of animal lovers when it is legal to have a competition with a winner's cup for ripping apart a defenceless animal.
SHEILA BRENNAN (Mrs),
Bombay Street, Blackburn.
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