Campaigners hoping to get fox hunting banned were in County Durham this weekend.
The League Against Cruel Sports and the International Fund for Animal Welfare were planning to be inn Newton Aycliffe today and Sedgefield tomorrow urging people to sign a postcard supporting a hunting ban.
The protestors are deliver thousands of signed postcards, calling for the reintroduction of the Hunting Bill to the next Parliamentary session, to Tony Blair's Sedgefield constituency office on Monday.
Douglas Batchelor, chief executive of the League Against Cruel Sports, said: "It is disgraceful that people still regard chasing an animal to exhaustion before killing it as 'sport'.
"We are in the middle of the cub-hunting season, in which over 8,000 fox cubs are likely to die. Let this be the last time that innocent cubs have to die for someone's idea of fun."
