IN the letter headlined "Spin and confusion over hunting issue" (You Say, Thursday, September 23) there were a number of inaccuracies which require rectification.

Judy Gilbert voices a legitimate complaint, when she says that monitors are often prevented from filming.

The fact that there is video evidence points to the dedication and concern for animal welfare hunt monitors display, frequently in the face of physical and verbal intimidation.

The scenes we saw unfold outside Westminster and in Exeter show the pro-hunt extremists in their true light - those who pursue a bloodsport, within a culture of violence and cruelty.

The League Against Cruel Sports has campaigned peacefully and democratically for 80 years to bring about an end to hunting with dogs.

There is no evidence that in the case of the Plas Machynllech Hunt in Mid-Wales that our accusations were nothing but entirely consistent with the truth.

DOUGLAS BATCHELOR,

Chief Executive,

League Against Cruel Sports.

n JON Burgess, in replying (You Say, Thursday, September 23) to my colleague Judy Gilbert, writes "she claims... POWA is prevented from gathering video evidence in the hunting field.

"This is in complete contradiction to the POWA website where we are told they have film of numerous hunting incidences."

No contradiction at all, Mr Burgess, and I can reinforce her "claim".

I, like Judy, am a POWA hunt monitor and we have recorded hours of hunt chaos including accidents caused by hunt hounds on public roads, hounds running amok in villages and gardens, distressed residents, hunt and hounds blocking roads, trespassing and so on.

There is nothing "bogus" as he puts it, about that, and it has been seen and noted by the media, MPs, police, and others.

What we cannot do is record what happens out of sight on private land,"the hunting field", because the hunts absolutely refuse to permit it.

Elsewhere we are welcomed in the countryside as the majority wants a ban.

PETER BUNCE,

Protect Our Wild Animals

Haddenham,

Bucks.