Countryside Alliance Awards

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Friday, 5th February 2010 at 12:33pm

We warmly congratulate the winners of the Countryside Alliance Awards, announced this week. The winners of the ‘Rural Oscars’ are:

  • Local Food Award: Beadlam Grange Farm Shop and Tea Room, Pockley, Yorkshire
  • Village Shop/ Post Office Award: Feckenham Community Shop, Worcestershire
  • Rural Enterprise Award: Machars Movies, Isle of Whithorn, Dumfries
  • Daily Telegraph Traditional Business Award: The Greyhound Inn, Grizebeck, Cumbria
  • Rural Hero of 2009: Canon Rev Alan Robson, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire
  • Political Awards: Grassroots Award: Sir Alan Beith, Liberal Democrat MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed
  • Political Awards: Westminster Award: Philip Dunne, Conservative MP for Ludlow.

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Comments

1
How appalling that any decent business would want to be associated with the bloodsports lobby. These companies would be much more successful if they boycotted these 'trophies' given by an organisation that thrives on causing prolonged and unecessary suffering to animals in the name of sport!
Posted by  at 11:46pm on Friday, 5th February 2010
2

I'm not very happy for a quango - funded in part by my money - to be commending the Countryside Alliance and its 'awards'. The CA is a front for fox hunting and hare coursing. Its members want these so-called 'sports' brought back. The Hunting Act should be strengthened so that we can be sure that chasing and killing wild animals for fun is clearly and for ever unlawful and regarded by all with well-deserved revulsion. If they know what's good for them politically, Cameron, Hague, Herbert & Co. should, at the very least, promise to let sleeping dogs lie, literally.

Posted by Geoffrey Woollard  at 8:27am on Saturday, 6th February 2010
3

And what about those of us who live in rural area who despise all that the Countryside Alliance stands for? I'm far from impressed by awards given by bloodthirsty thugs who have already infiltrated the Conservative party and now seem to be the recipients of much admiration here. Any local business who receives the CA award is automatically added to the list of premises I will no longer frequent. 

Countrydweller.

Posted by  at 1:43pm on Saturday, 6th February 2010
4
Thanks for this feedback. The CRC would like to make it clear that we have not, to date, expressed any view on the issue of hunting with hounds. However, the Countryside Alliance is active on behalf of its members on other matters of rural policy and practice and the example of their rural Oscars is a case in point. These awards celebrate some great success stories in and about rural England and we wanted to bring these to the attention of others. We would do similarly for other awards of this nature.
Posted by  at 10:32am on Tuesday, 9th February 2010

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