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.