Northumberland hunters claim Equality Act protects practice as part of pit village cultural heritage

Hunters from Northumberland have made a film to promote their campaign, which will premiere in Ashington this week.

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00:00We had very little future to look forward to.

00:03Everybody in the village worked at the pit.

00:05You can't get any more working class than a miner.

00:08That's probably the shittiest job on the planet, like.

00:12Everybody in Ashton had a little chass.

00:14And everybody used to go out, catch rabbits, catch deer.

00:18This was the way of life.

00:19It was all I did.

00:21You just watch the dog, love him, do what it loves to do.

00:24I get little chills thinking about it.

00:27We haven't got anything like that now.

00:29It's all just gone.

00:30What do you think about this move down the bend?

00:32I think it's a disgrace.

00:33Which will have a massive effect on working class men

00:36who have a passion and a history of going out and catching rabbits for the pot.

00:40There's more working class people who've got dogs

00:42than there is packs of hounds.

00:44It's in their nature.

00:45That Chris Patton, that's carbon neutral, isn't it?

00:47It's very easy for a city-dwelling ecologist to say,

00:51I hate hunting.

00:53But that's the view from the distance.

00:59[♪upbeat music playing♪♪.