Stopping trail hunts because some break the law is as logical as closing supermarkets because people shoplift, writes Lindsay Gilmour . Plus a letter from Roderick White If the government is going to stop all trail hunts because some break the law ( Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance, 26 December ), can we also expect a ban on supermarkets because some people shoplift, a ban on cars because some drivers break the speed limit, or a ban on religion because some worshippers are extremists? Unless anyone in Westminster can think of any more pressing national issues worth looking at? Lindsay Gilmour Plymouth • Your report says trail hunting was introduced in response to the Hunting Act 2004. This would be news to, among others, followers of the Mid-Surrey Draghounds, which were in existence in the 1950s. Roderick White Chiswick, London Continue reading...