A COUNCILLOR'S bid to get controversial 'trail hunting' banned in north Oxfordshire has been thrown out.
Green councillor Ian Middleton put the motion at a Cherwell District Council meeting on Monday after suspicions were raised about illegal hunting.
A video secretly recorded by the League Against Cruel Sports shows key members of the hunting community allegedly describing trail hunting as a ‘smokescreen’ for hunts that chase live prey.
It is now being investigated by the police, and anti-hunt campaigners say it potentially makes any organisation that facilitates hunting on its land complicit in an illegal activity.
As a result, national bodies such as The National Trust and councils such as Peterborough have suspended trail hunting on their land.