Still sabbing the bastards
Summary of hunt saboteurs' activity in the region from August - December 2009. Nottingham, Sheffield & Leeds sabs started this seasons sabbing in September, when the hunts were training their young hounds to hunt by sending them after fox cubs. In the first few months of fox cub hunting, or“cubbing”, we sabbed the Burton, the …
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FOUR men have been charged as part of a police crackdown on illegal hare coursing in the North east of Scotland. Grampian Police yesterday revealed that three men from Aberdeen, aged 16, 48 and 69, and a 22-year-old man from Montrose had been arrested following alleged hare coursing incidents at St Katherines and Clola, in …
Three men from north Cumbria have admitted taking part in hare coursing – in one case because the man involved said he liked hare stew. The trio – Brampton man Richard Cartwright, 35, and Workington man Richard Moore, 42, and his 17-year-old son Dean – were caught by police near Annan. Cartwright, of West View, …
They call us a nation of animal lovers, yet attacks on creatures in their natural habitats have more than doubled in a year Crimes against wildlife, including badger baiting with dogs, hare coursing, poisoning of protected birds and even trapping them to sell as caged pets have soared to unprecedented heights. New figures from the …
At Lush, we're on the side of the foxes, which is why we are proud to launch our latest campaign against illegal fox hunting. We let out a sigh of relief in 2004 when Parliament finally reacted to the will of the people and passed the Hunting Act, which outlawed the chasing and killing of …
The cosmetics company Lush is launching a bubble bath it hopes will raise tens of thousands of pounds for anti-blood sports activists who sabotage fox hunts. The Hunt Saboteurs Association will be the latest beneficiary of proceeds from Lush, the ethical producer of handmade soaps which has gained a reputation for backing radical protest groups. …
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TWO women who made national headlines after instigating an ASBO on a pack of hunting dogs which strayed into their gardens are to make a film about the trauma of hunts straying on to private land. Jeanne Berry and Denise Ward, from Elcombe in the Slad Valley became the first people to get asbo warnings …
Television chef Clarissa Dickson-Wright today escaped punishment after she admitted being a spectator at an hare coursing event. Ms Dickson-Wright and the leading race horse trainer Sir Mark Prescott joined hundreds of hunt supporters for two days of the traditional field sport held on farmland near Malton, North Yorkshire, in March 2007. Coursing, in which …
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Four men have been charged in connection with a hare-coursing incident in Moray. Three of the suspects, aged 49, 42, and 15, are from Aberdeen, while the fourth is a 43-year-old from Inverness. Last night the chief superintendent of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Mike Flynn said it was …
In the next few weeks Sheffield Hunt Saboteurs will begin to disrupt bird shoots, fox hunts, and hare hunts which plan to kill wildlife for the next 8 months. There are many hunters and shooters in the North of England, some just 20 minutes out of Sheffield. We use a variety of tactics (see http://hsa.enviroweb.org/hsa.shtml) …
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