Leicester Animal Rights & Northants Hunt Saboteurs welcome the recent Oakham Town Council decision regarding the Cottesmore Hunt's Boxing Day Hunt. However, we note with concern with that the vote is not being accepted as the democratic decision that it is by hunt supporters and Deputy Mayor Adam Lowe. The Cottesmore Hunt have demonstrated that they are little more than an organisation of wildlife criminals who have been prosecuted for blocking a badger sett & linked to the breeding of foxes for sport 7 years after the creation of the Hunting Act 2004. 

In the event of a re-consideration of the issue at their meeting on December 9th, we ask that Oakham Town Council reflect in their decision the overwhelming opposition to fox hunting as a sport, demonstrated in countless opinion polls, and ask members of the public to support us in our request by signing this petition.