Vegan MP and vice-president of League Against Cruel Sports is new shadow Environment Secretary

Jeremy Corbyn has appointed a vegan and vice-president of the League Against Cruel Sports as his shadow Environment Secretary – potentially signalling a change in Labour’s policies towards country sports and livestock farming. Kerry McCarthy, MP for Bristol East, takes over from Maria Eagle and will shadow Defra Secretary of State Liz Truss. Ms Eagle …

Five men fined for hare coursing near Bury St Edmunds

14 September 2015 Four men and a youth who were caught hare coursing in west Suffolk have each been fined £100. Abraham Baker, 22, of Dartford, Kent, Tony Baker, 21, of Hailsham, east Sussex, Tommylee Beaney, 18, of Sittingbourne, Kent, Obie Harper, 21, of Ashford, Kent, and a 16-year-old from Kent, all admitted trespassing in …