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Hunters left spitting feathers after one of Britain’s biggest landowners bans grouse-shooting on its estates
Members of a shooting party on a moor near Ripon, North Yorkshire in August, 2019.
HUNTING, shooting and fishing brigade devotees were left spitting feathers after one of Britain’s biggest landowners banned grouse-shooting on its estates.
Water company United Utilities provides water and sewage services in north-west England, where it owns huge swathes of moorland in the Pennines and Lake District.
Current leases to shoot grouse will not be renewed, the company said.
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