Badger Death Arrest

A 56 year old St Ives man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of killing a badger in Towednack.

Two local businessmen had offered a £500 reward for information through the Cornwall Badger Rescue Group, after the animal was shot on September 23.

It is illegal to kill the animals under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992.

After being questioned at Camborne police station, the man was released on police bail until June 12.

From: 'The Cornishman' newspaper

29th April 2009

Stable lad killed himself: Inquest

A YOUNG huntsman shot himself at the Grafton Hunt kennels in Northamptonshire after writing a suicide note to his parents, an inquest heard today

Jack Burgess, aged just 16, was described by his mother Margaret Connolly as "a wonderful son" who had a love of the countryside and a promising future with the hunt before his death in October last year.

The former Kingsbrook College student killed himself with a .32 pistol - normally used to destroy animals at the Paulerspury kennels - after being told by huntsman Mick Wills that he would not be allowed to go hunting that morning

15th April 2009

Man fined for hare coursing

A man from Redbourn was fined £700 after being court hare coursing by police. Jimmy Cash, 45, of Lybury Lane, was arrested on October 21, 2008 in Therfield near Royston

On April 4 he pleaded guilty to one poaching charge and a hare coursing offence under the new Hunting Act 2004. Hare coursing, a banned blood sport, involves using dogs such as greyhounds to chase wild hares - sometimes for cash bets

At Stevenage Magistrates Court last Wednesday (April 8), he was fined £350 for each offence, plus £400 costs and £15 to help victims of crime

6th April 2009

Badger baiting gangs hunted in police probe

City setts targeted as upsurge in sick bloodsport linked to criminal gangs

SICK gangs involved in illegal badger baiting are being hunted by police following an upsurge of incidents in Glasgow.

Specialist officers are tightening surveillance after five setts were targeted in just six weeks in the East End.

Badger baiting is one of the most brutal illegal bloodsports in the UK