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Donations to the National Working Terrier Federation raised at todays show from the Tea and Coffee were in excess of £60 which will be sent on to NWTF. Many thanks to those who contributed to the fund and thanks to the Girlls who served non -stop during the day.

Death knell for hunting ban as police abandon monitoring operations Valerie Elliott, Countryside Editor Police forces are to stop monitoring hunts in a change of policy that sounds the death knell for the hunting ban, The Times has learnt. New guidance from the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) states that gathering evidence of illegal hunting is difficult, that the ban is hard to enforce and that chief constables have more pressing priorities. In future, forces should rely on anti-hunt activists to produce information, it says. But they should also be “very cautious†o