Jamaica Inn calls time on 100 years of hunts meeting on its land

Cornish pub used in Daphne du Maurier novel says there are no pluses, just minuses to hunt visits

A pub that was the setting for a novel by Daphne du Maurier has banned hunts from meeting on its land after 100 years of the practice.

The Jamaica Inn in Cornwall - immortalised in the 1936 novel of the same name about smuggling - announced the decision after the East Cornwall Hunt invited the Beaufort Hunt to meet there on Saturday, a move the pub called extremely ill-advised".