National Trust chief in vote row

29 August 2000



National Trust chief in vote row

By FWi staff

NATIONAL Trust chairman Charles Nunneley has been accused of using his casting votes to keep pro-hunting members off the trusts ruling council, reports The Times.

Eight barristers, backed by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, a former director of the Countryside Alliance, will make their complaints at the Trusts annual meeting in November.

The National Trust angered the pro-hunt lobby when it banned stag hunting on its land in 1997.

• Stag hunts drop fight against ban, FWi, 05 May 1999
• Hunt supporters fail to censure National Trust, FWi, 09 November 1998
• Pro-hunt group misled National Trust, FWi, 07 October 1998
  
• The Times 29/08/2000 page 5