I WAS pleased to read the report about the demonstration by anti-blood sports protesters (LET, December 28). Without protests, the vicious sport of fox-hunting will not cease.

It is a disgrace that there is so much downright cruelty to foxes and other wildlife by members who profess a Christian religion.

There are two reasons why it continues - profit and pleasure - and it is unworthy of civilised people to make a sport of harassing and killing animals for pleasure. It is surely shameful.

SHEILA BRENNAN, Bombay Street, Blackburn.

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