STAR couple Jamie and Louise Redknapp today joined anti-hunt campaigners to urge Prime Minister to outlaw the controversial sport of hare coursing.

The Liverpool footballer and his pop star wife spoke out the day before the start of the Waterloo Cup event at Altcar, Lancashire, and as a new Mori poll showed that 81pc of people think the sport should be illegal.

The Redknapps backed Campaigning to Protect Hunted Animals (CPHA) in sending a clear message to Downing Street that the Government should follow Scotland's lead and ban hunting with dogs in England and Wales.