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Now activists seek to scrap beach donkey rides loved by kids

Activists are bidding to end the great British seaside tradition of children’s donkey rides. They have launched a petition calling for the rides at Clevedon in Somerset to stopped – scrapping a 130-year-old tradition. It calls on the local council to ban the rides on Salthouse Fields, a public park on the seafront, because they are cruel to donkeys in hot weather. But of the 110,439 signatures…