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Five to contest baiting and cruelty charges BY REBECCA BLACK – 28 August 2013 Five men accused of badger baiting are set to contest the charges at a special sitting of Newtownards Magistrates Court next month. Chris Kirkwood (22) and Ryan Kirkwood (21), from Belfast, along with 40-year-old Darren Millar from Belfast, Graham Officer (42) …
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http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/three-cleared-of-hunting-fox-with-dogs-in-garden-1-5982471 Three cleared of hunting fox with dogs in garden 23 August 2013 The Hunting Act has been described as difficult to interpret and prosecute after three members of Yorkshire’s Holderness Hunt were cleared of illegal hunting. Charges were brought against master of foxhounds Charles Clark, former huntsman David Elliot and amateur whip Philip Walker …
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13 August 2013 UK The League Against Cruel sports and the RSPCA are working jointly on a Hunting Act prosecution. Following an operation by the League’s Investigations Team, footage was submitted to the RSPCA prosecutions department, the RSPCA has served a summons on Will Goffe, huntsman for the Ledbury Hunt, for allegedly breaching the Hunting …
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Case shows Hunting Act 2004 can, and does, work Four members of the Middleton Foxhounds, a registered fox hunt based at Malton, in North Yorkshire, today pleaded guilty in respect of the illegal hunting of a fox in December 2012, following footage obtained by the League Against Cruel Sports during a hunt meet at Full …
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Tuesday, 23 July 2013 Three men convicted of taking away a live badger have been resentenced by a court. The trio were convicted at the city’s magistrates’ court in May of illegally taking a live badger – a protected species – from a wood at Burthwaite, near Carlisle. They launched an appeal against that conviction, …
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A wealthy businessman accused of turning picturesque woodland into a wasteland to build a track to his pheasant shoot has been ordered to pay out almost £1 million. By Rosa Silverman, Sally Wardle and agencies 01 Aug 2013 Philip Day, who owns the Edinburgh Woollen Mill chain and is said to be as rich as …