Hunting protesters cause chaos at conference

A PRO-HUNTING campaigner and two other demonstrators were in police custody last night after they heckled British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s keynote address to his party as protests erupted inside and outside the Labour conference.

Mr Blair’s speech was twice interrupted from the conference floor in Brighton as 8,000 people and 1,000 working dogs marched outside in a noisy demonstration against the proposed hunting ban.

Four others were arrested as rotting animal carcasses were dumped across the city and rival groups clashed outside the conference, at the Brighton Centre.