Letter: Hunting debate hit by class wars

I enjoy reading the Star's letters page for the diversity and topicality of the issues covered. It's good to hear a variety of opinions but I was saddened to notice that the anti-hunt chorus is back in good voice and still singing from the same tatty song-sheet.

Nick Adkin (Letters, February 28) regales us with a description of 'pink' coated, blood-lusting toffs chasing terrified foxes across the countryside for the pleasure of seeing them killed.

Now hold on, Nick, even when I used to hunt, pre-ban, people didn't chase foxes, hounds did. If they caught one, it was done so quickly and efficiently that few of the followers even noticed the fact. Allowing that the mounted followers are one of the hunt's main sources of income, I never heard anyone demanding their money back.

They were there for the pleasure of riding across country, being out in the open air and, for many, the joy of watching hounds work.