A MALVERN plumber and a vet from Knight-wick will see their faces in newspapers across the region as part of a pro-hunting advertising campaign.

Bob Taylor and David Denny are among seven West Midlands people who enjoy hunting and have agreed to lend their faces to the campaign.

They are featured in a string of adverts from the Country-side Alliance pressure group, which aim to banish perceived stereotypes of hunt supporters as "bloodthirsty toffs".

Malvern plumber Mr Taylor, 38, who has been hunting since the age of 10, regularly takes his children with him on the Croome and West Warwickshire Hunt.

Mr Taylor said if the hunt were banned, it would deprive some of his friends of their livelihoods.

"All I lose is the privilege of being able to follow hounds across country, but there's people other than myself that would lose a lot more, the huntsmen, the blacksmith," he said.

Mr Taylor's advert features him in his work clothes under the headline Toff?

"I think that class is still an issue," he said. "People see Prince Charles hunting and think everyone who hunts is like that, but it's also ordinary working class people."

Mr Denny, 66 from Knight-wick, works as a vet in Worcester and has been involved in hunting all his life.

"Just as farmers have to cull their animals to maintain a healthy population, so man has a responsibility for wild animals, they have to be culled," he said.

Mr Denny appears in his work clothes in the campaign under the headline Sadist?

"Hunting is a disciplined cull," he said.

"It's not an ideal situation but the alternatives are far worse. It should be all about the welfare of the animal and if I thought it would be improved with a ban I would not be prepared to defend hunting, but I am."

l Malvern plumber Bob Taylor, who supports the Croome and West Warwickshire Hunt, and the poster bearing his face.