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Ashdon: Man due in court on Hunting Act charge 31st July 2026 A man is due to appear in court charged with hunting a wild mammal with dogs following an incident in Ashdon earlier this year. Rhys Matcham, 34, of High Easter Road, Barnston, is due to appear before Colchester magistrates on 4 August 2026 …
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30th July 2026 A man has been charged with multiple driving offences following a hare coursing incident near Ludgershall earlier this year. Tommy Frankham, 21, of Sandy Lane in Bushey, Hertfordshire, faces charges of dangerous driving, driving without insurance, failing to stop for police, and using a motor vehicle where the number of passengers carried …
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29th July 2026 The Stowe School Beagles – dubbed “cruel and illegal” by Northamptonshire Police – have won a major prize at hunting’s showcase event, the Festival of Hounds. Stowe School students gloat as the hare is ripped apart. Last week the HSA reported on the event, a dismal gathering of hardcore hunters on a patch of …
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27th July 2026 A trial date has been set for a man who denies a hare coursing charge. Tommy Lee appeared at Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday (July 22) where he entered his not guilty plea. Lee has been charged with intent to search for hares on South Drove, Lutton Marsh. The 29-year-old has been …
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27th July 2026 In less than a few weeks the stag hunting season will begin, with the three remaining stag hunts in the south west, heading out to terrorise and kill mature autumn stags. This will continue until the end of October when they switch their sights to hinds. The autumn stag hunting season focuses …
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25th July 2026 On a remote Cambridgeshire farm, where his nearest neighbour is half a mile away, Mathew Latta was making lunch when the peace was shattered by the sound of loud exhausts. Latta ran to the window to see a convoy of more than a dozen 4x4s heading towards his farm. His iron gates …
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24th July 2026 Recently, we highlighted a The Times article which exposed a plot by the current chair of the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA), Viscount William Waldorf Astor III, to “hoodwink” – or, to put it more plainly, deceive – government ministers over the forthcoming trail hunting policy. According to the uncovered plot, the proposal was …
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22nd July 2026 Today the ever-shrinking hunting world will gather at the east of England Showground near Peterborough for their annual Festival of Hounds. For decades, this event was known as the Festival of Hunting but – as so often in the hunting world – language has been changed to hide their real intent. Hunters love …
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16th July 2026 A man has been banned from keeping birds after illegally trapping and caging wild goldfinches. Colwyn Probert, of Kingsmoor Caravan Park in Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire, kept the birds at a property on The Glebe in Tenby. He was sentenced at Llanelli Magistrates’ Court on July 2, after pleading guilty to three offences under …
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13th July 2026 The Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt (BSV) have just racked up a total of eighteen convictions in three years. The latest is the conviction of regular rider Fred Ford, who during a cubbing meet last year, pinned a female sab to a gate while she was trying to access a footpath. While …