https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/11/29/hunt-sabs-could-blocked-disrupting-meets-tory-plans-make-trespass/ 29 NOVEMBER 2019 Hunt saboteurs could be blocked from disrupting meets under Tory manifesto plans to make trespass a criminal offence. The protestors have complained that the latest rules will make sabotaging hunts “almost impossible” as it will mean much greater penalties when they crossing private land. Currently trespass is a civil offence, meaning …
Clampdown on Isle of Wight Hunt after terrier attack
A TERRIER that savagely bit a woman while exercising with the Isle of Wight Hunt hounds is reportedly still causing trouble in the Gatcombe area. Following the incident, which the County Press reported in July, an agreement was made between the IW Council, Chillerton and Gatcombe Parish Council, police and the hunt master Rupert Inglesant, …
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Huntsman chased up and down road by enormous flightless bird
Scott Matthew Cochrane found with dead rabbits, Lurcher-type dogs and steel ball bearings
AN OFFENDER who admitted hunting wild animals with dogs has been banned from land across three counties after breaching a court order. Scott Matthew Cochrane had been found with dead rabbits, Lurcher-type dogs and steel ball bearings. He can no longer enter many rural areas in Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. The areas include south of …
Mia Farrow shares photo of Trump children with dead leopard: ‘Tell your sons animal cruelty is now a crime’
Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr have been photographed with a dead elephant and a water buffalo during their 'trophy' hunts in Zimbabwe. After Donald Trump signed a law that makes animal cruelty a federal crime, a photo of the president's eldest sons holding a leopard they killed has resurfaced, along with other photos from …
Men convicted for illegal fox cruelty at Kimblewick hunt spared jail
TWO men who were convicted of animal cruelty after dragging a trapped fox from a tunnel during a hunt in Oxfordshire have been spared jail. Ian James Kirby Parkinson, 65, of Lower Road, Haddenham, and Mark Anthony Vincent, 53, of Kimblewick, Aylesbury - the President of the Kimblewick Hunt group - were both found guilty …
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Jeremy Corbyn says fox hunting is ‘barbarity’ and pledges to keep it banned
This is from Thursday 1 June 2017.
Labour’s plans to curb illegal fox hunting, badger baiting and hare coursing
Former Meynell Hunt members admit illegally hunting wild animal with dogs
18th November 2019 Four other hunt associates have had their case dismissed. Two men have been fined after admitting illegally hunting a wild animal with dogs. Sam Staniland, 32, of Hadleigh, Ipswich; and William Tatler, 46, of The Green, Idridgehay, Belper; were fined £535 each when they appeared at Nottingham Justice Centre. Both men are …
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Illegal owl trader caught by police
18th November 2019 An illegal owl trader was rumbled after West Midlands Police swooped to discover birds being unlawfully kept and sold on. Officers discovered six of the protected species across three garden aviaries in Walsall after executing a search warrant alongside the National Wildlife Crime Unit. The force acted on information last December and …