Charity welcomes government consultation to properly ban hunting with hounds

26th March 2026 Animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports has welcomed a government consultation, launched today, which will pave the way for tougher laws to finally end hunting with dogs, such as fox hunting, in the English and Welsh countryside. The League is encouraging the public to take part in the hunting consultation …

Bin-Bag Beaufort Caught Killing and Bin‑Bagging Yet Another Hunted Fox

20th March 2026 On Friday 6th March 2026, the day before their Point‑to‑Point, the Duke of Beaufort’s Hunt were once again caught hunting and killing a fox. This latest incident follows a recent Channel 4 News exposé which featured the Beaufort, alongside other hunts, actively hunting and killing foxes. WATCH THE VIDEO Sabs had already recorded a kill …

Blood stains as animal ‘killed’ in Cotswolds hound hunt

20th March 2026 Blood stains were reportedly found in a garden as an animal was ‘killed’ in a Cotswolds hound hunt. Campaign group Three Counties Hunt Saboteurs has said it found a blood stain in a garden in Condicote, near to Chipping Norton and in the Cotswolds. This was on Wednesday, March 11, and they …

Convicted Scottish gamekeeper Russell Mason – more disturbing details about this case

Message from Raptor Persecution UK 18th March 2026 Further to yesterday’s news that Scottish gamekeeper Russell Mason, 49, had pleaded guilty to battering a trapped Goshawk to death on a shooting estate in Perthshire (see here), the Daily Record has published more detail about this case, which is quite disturbing. The article is reproduced below in case this URL is …

Scottish gamekeeper Russell Mason pleads guilty to battering a Goshawk to death on shooting estate in Perthshire

Message from Raptor Persecution UK 17th March 2026 A Scottish gamekeeper has pleaded guilty to killing a Goshawk after he battered it to death after it was caught inside a Crow cage trap on a shooting estate in Perthshire. At Perth Sheriff Court this morning, on what should have been the opening day of a …