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