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  "textContent": "Sir Ben Wallace on a visit to the Heythrop Kennels.\n\n**What makes a former cabinet minister with almost no personal experience of trail-hunting take up its cause?_H &H_ hunting editor Catherine Austen explains all...\n**\n\n“It’s our way of life,” says Sir Ben Wallace. “The rural communities are under a whole range of assaults and at the heart of it, we survive as communities because we tolerate each other. “That’s the difference between us and the ‘London bubble’ – we don’t all shoot and we don’t all hunt, and we […]",
  "title": "Sir Ben Wallace warns the Government: ‘Don’t pick a fight with the countryside’"
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