Still sabbing the bastards
You could not make this sort of thing up!!! ############## 23rd February 2023 Questions have been asked of Wiltshire Police after it was revealed a new recruit had ties to two fox hunting groups. Police Constable Cheryl Knight posted on the Wiltshire Rural Crime Team's Facebook page that she had just started with that arm …
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Family left 'shocked and appalled' after pack of hounds kill fox in their private garden 22nd February 2023 Watch the footage here - http://www.itv.com/news/2023-02-22/family-left-appalled-after-pack-of-hounds-kill-fox-in-their-private-garden ITV News has seen graphic footage of a how an apparently out of control fox hunt spilled into a domestic garden, as our Correspondent Rupert Evelyn reports A family has told …
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20th February 2023 Following a number of recent scandals, hunting’s governing body – the British Hound Sports Association – has announced a ‘review’ of terrier work. But what is this secretive practice and why is it so important to the criminal fox hunters? Scum: just your average terrier crew. Fox Hunting At first sight, fox …
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18th February 2023 Reports of badger baiting over the county border led police to a scarred terrier. Police officers went to a property in North Heath, Chieveley - just south of Oxfordshire - on March 26 last year to investigate a report of badger-baiting, a banned sport that sees the striped animal attacked by dogs. …
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17th February 2023 A hunt run by a friend of the King is being investigated by police after two of its members were allegedly filmed filling in badger setts to stop foxes escaping their hounds underground. Lord Daresbury, a director of the Countryside Alliance, is master of the Wynnstay Hunt which rides in the Welsh …
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17th February 2023 Fed up with the constant interference and blocking up of badger setts by the Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (Wynnstay) Hunt (Based near Malpas), activists decided something had to be done and a plan was hatched to catch the suspects in the act. On 3rd February, they did just that. The Wynnstay’s huntsman …
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2023 is the 60th anniversary of the Hunt Saboteurs Association, the oldest direct action organisation in the world. To celebrate we’ve given away sixty thousand pounds, one thousand to each of our affiliated local groups. We’re able to give such a large sum because the HSA is run entirely by volunteers and all donations received …
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16th February 2023 BREAKING NEWS….. Further to this morning’s blog (here), criminal gamekeeper Paul Allen, 54, of Baileys Hill, in Brockington, near Wimborne, has been given a suspended custodial sentence and a small fine after he pleaded guilty to multiple wildlife, poisons and firearms offences whilst working on the Shaftesbury Estate in Dorset in March …
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16th February 2023 A MAN said he was left badly hurt and needed an ambulance after a physical altercation during a hunt. Mark Saddler was left with head injuries, a stolen walking stick and damage to his retina after he claims he was attacked by two men. Mr Saddler was at Bradley Green, near Feckenham, …