Ten year anniversary of the Liberty and Livelihood March
Ten years ago today (22 September) 407,791 country people from up and down the UK assembled in London for the Liberty and Livelihood March, to show their opposition to the hunting act and other threats to country life.
Today the Countryside Alliance (CA) is still fighting the same campaigns. And the fight to repeal the hunting act continues.
CA president Baroness Mallalieu said: “It is the determination to keep going whatever the threats and difficulties which has sustained our community in the difficult times over the past ten years.
“It has been tough – it may get tougher yet, but the rallies and demonstrations and marches gave our community for the first time an identity, a voice and a sense of power.
“We all remember how it felt. Those five years changed all our lives.”
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.