Animal welfare groups promised a legal battle after the Government abandoned the fight to introduce a New Year ban on imports of fur caught in steel- jawed leghold traps. Ministers said they had no alternative after other nations accepted a last-minute change of mind by the European Commission not to go ahead with the ban.
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