Category: League Against Cruel Sports

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Three hunting hounds killed by train during Worcestershire trail hunt

2nd April 2025 HUNTING hounds trespassing on a railway in Worcestershire were struck and killed by a train, say British Transport Police. Staff from Great Western Railway required specialist support after the three hounds, part of the Croome and West Warwickshire Hunt, were killed near Worcestershire Parkway station. It comes as Defra minister Daniel Zeichner …

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Former Scottish gamekeeper receives pathetic sentence for digging Badger sett

Message from Raptor Persecution UK 18th March 2025 A former gamekeeper has been sentenced after being found guilty of two wildlife crime offences relating to the digging and blocking of a badger sett in Fife. Dylan Boyle, 52, from Avonbridge, Falkirk, had been filmed on 10 January 2023 by a field officer from the League …

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What a prick

16th March 2025 Message from North Dorset Hunt Saboteurs Devon and Somerset Staghounds tantrum after we ruined another Saturday for them resulting in the stag escaping into a League Against Cruel Sports sanctuary AGAIN! During the chase our vehicle was blocked in, then struck deliberately by a quad, then enter Mad Ron.... Thanks to Wildlife …

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Hunt apologises after hounds run on former Labour leader’s property

7th February 2025 A hunt has apologised after hounds were filmed running through a private garden and orchard co-owned by former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband MP. Householders in Claydon, near Bicester, reported the incident anonymously to animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports. They shared footage of the hounds on the private land …

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Lake District pensioners distraught after foxhounds invade garden

31st December 2024 A Lake District couple said they were distraught after a pack of foxhounds invaded their garden earlier this month. It is not known who the hounds belonged to, but they spent an hour in a garden and surrounding fields in Troutbeck, near Windermere. Toni Gibson, 88, who lives on Holbeck Lane with …

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‘Out of control’ hounds run amok in Bourton-on-the-Water

25th October 2024 ‘Out of control’ hounds from a hunt have been caught on camera running amok through a Cotswold tourist hotspot. The hounds were seen on Friday, October 18 rampaging through Bourton-on-the-Water after a hunt appears to have lost control of them in open countryside earlier in the day. The hounds navigated busy roads, …

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Former terrier man with the Berwickshire and Fife Fox Hunts has been found guilty on two charges related to the destruction of a badger sett

16th September 2024 A former terrier man with the Berwickshire and Fife Fox Hunts has been found guilty on two charges related to the destruction of a badger sett. Dylan Boyle, 52, a transport officer who lives in Avonbridge, pled not guilty to the charges of digging into an active badger sett and deliberately blocking …

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