| 28th
February 2007 |
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Poll backs complete snaring ban
 Hundreds of people in Scotland have backed
a complete ban on the use of snares, according to a study.
Three quarters of people surveyed by the League Against Cruel
Sports said they wanted the traps outlawed.
The organisation polled 1,036 people and has published its findings
to coincide with a Scottish Executive consultation on the use
of snares
| 28th
February 2007 |
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Fox killed by hounds claim
POLICE have launched an investigation after a pack of hounds allegedly
cornered and killed a fox in a domestic garden.
They are also looking at claims that a pet rabbits and cats were
also attacked.
Police officers recovered the mutilated body of a fox in a rear
garden of a house in Bath Road, Sturminster Newton, last Tuesday
at 4.10pm.
PC Paul Hollick, of Sturminster Newton police, said: "Alarmed home
owners have told us that a number of hunting hounds chased a fox
through several private gardens
| 27th
February 2007 |
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FOXHOUNDS INVADE WOODLAND
TRUST NATURE RESERVE
On Saturday 25th February, the Old Berks Foxhunt invaded Uffington
Gorse, a Woodland Trust nature reserve a few miles from Wantage,
and the hounds were filmed tearing an animal apart within the
reserve.
Monitors from Protect Our Wild Animals had been following the
Old Berkshire hunt all day. The hunt met at Kingston Lisle
Park in the morning and hunted around the Kingston Lisle, Baulking
and Uffington area all day. Towards the end of the afternoon,
monitors heard hounds on cry within Uffington Gorse, and managed
to obtain film of the dogs tearing an animal apart within the
fenced wood. The film will be forwarded to the police for investigation
| 27th
February 2007 |
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Vet Is Accused Of Striking Horse In
Front Of Young Girl
A Vet repeatedly slapped his horse about the head while he was
taking part in a riding relay, a disciplinary inquiry was told.Lodewijk
De Smet had been riding the horse for Banwen Miners Hunt at the
Lower Chapel Show in Brecon on August 13, 2005, the Royal College
of Veterinary Surgeons was told.
Mr De Smet, who was appearing before the college's disciplinary
committee, is accused of disgraceful conduct in a professional
respect.
If the allegations against him, which he denies, are found to
be proved he could be struck off
| 27th
February 2007 |
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TEENAGERS FACE BADGER-BAITING CHARGE
 A Gang of four teenagers, the youngest aged
15, appeared before Gloucester magistrates accused of badger-baiting.The
four defendants, all from Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, South Wales,
were charged with interfering with badger setts at Stroud at
the beginning of January.
Christian O'Reilly, 19, of Craig Street, was also charged with possessing an
offensive weapon, possessing a firearm without a certificate and with hunting
a wild animal with dogs
| 24th
February 2007 |
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Deerstalker Dave can fell two stags with one shot
 View to a kill: David Cameron has a reputation as a deadly accurate
marksman
David Cameron risks offending animal rights
campaigners after details of his secret passion for stag shooting,
one of the bloodiest field sports, were revealed.
The Conservative leader regularly goes deerstalking and is one
of the few marksmen skilled enough to shoot two stags in one
go
| 24th
February 2007 |
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Fox hunt turned farm outing into 'a day of terror'
A MOTHER told yesterday how a fox hunt turned a visit to a farm
for her children into a day of terror.
The four children, all aged under 10, had only finished lunch at
the farm in Milford, Co Cork where their great aunt was living
when the galloping pack of hunt members, horses and hounds burst
unannounced into the quiet farmyard. Margo O'Keeffe said she watched
in horror as members of the Duhallow Hunt came around the blind
side of a barn within three yards of where her daughter had been
playing a short time earlier
| 24th
February 2007 |
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Residents' anger over estate hunt
 A hunt on Tuesday not only brought opposition
from hunt monitors but also
drew protests from residents angry it was being carried out near a conservation
project.
The Suffolk Hunt meets once a year at the Thornham estate, by
permission of the Thornham Estate Trustees.
Mid Suffolk District Council, which funds a countryside officer to manage the
Thornham Walks conservation project on the estate, said the decision was outside
its control because the estate is private land
| 23rd
February 2007 |
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Row after hunt spills on to animal
sanctuary land
A row has broken out after an animal sanctuary
volunteer claimed to police she was hurt when a hunt spilled
over onto land they should not have been on.
Deborah Sparkes, a volunteer at the PACT animal sanctuary in
Woodrising, has lodged a complaint to the police about the
behaviour of the West Norfolk Foxhounds.
She said she and Chris Rockingham, another volunteer at the
sanctuary, suffered a bruised hip when three huntsmen galloped
towards her and two others, forcing them to take cover
| 22nd
February 2007 |
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Gran's anger as abusive hunt supporter cautioned
 A HUNT supporter subjected a grandmother to
a torrent of verbal abuse and caused several hundred pounds worth
of damage to her car in a bid to stop her monitoring the Vale
of the White Horse Hunt.
Judy Gilbert, 60, was left shaken by
the ordeal as she watched the VWH at Filkins Farm near Lechlade
but determined to carry on doing her job
Watch the video here
| 22nd
February 2007 |
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POLICE PROBE HOUNDS IN GARDENS CLAIM
Police are investigating claims a pack of hounds ran through people's
gardens in Sturminster Newton on Tuesday and killed a fox.Police
were called to the Bath Road area shortly after 4pm and found the
dead fox in the garden of a property.
Members of the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt are believed to
have been in the area at the time and the hunt has launched its
own investigation into the incident.
An unnamed man who contacted the Western Gazette said residents
had been horrified to see the hounds cross the river and race through
people's gardens
| 21st
February 2007 |
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Plea for witnesses after 'accidental' killing
of fox
ANIMAL welfare campaigners are appealing
for witnesses after hunt hounds killed a fox.
As reported in the News, a police investigation
has been launched after the animal was killed by a pack of
hounds belonging to the Puckeridge Hunt. It is illegal to hunt
foxes with dogs in this country.
The Puckeridge Hunt admits
its hounds killed the animal last Wednesday between Duddenhoe
End and Langley Upper Green in Essex but says it was "an accident".
| 20th
February 2007 |
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 Anti hunt protesters hound Sussex police
17 Anti hunting protesters staged a protest
this evening outside Crawley police station, West Sussex to highlight
their concerns that Sussex police are ingoring the Hunting Act
and turning a blind eye to illegal hunting with dogs.
The
protest comes in the wake a similar protests held on Monday outside parlaiment
which protested that police are "picking and mixing" which laws to
enforce
| 19th
February 2007 |
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Police 'not enforcing hunt law'
Police are adopting a "pick and mix" attitude
to the law on hunting and ignoring offences, anti-hunt campaigners
say.
Marking two years since the introduction of a ban on hunting
with dogs, protesters in Parliament Square called for better
enforcement.
Activists, dressed as bank robbers and
gangsters, said hunts were "openly breaking the law".
| 19th
February 2007 |
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HUNTS: FOXES NOW THINNER ON THE GROUND
A row has broken out after claims by hunt supporters that fox and
deer numbers have fallen since hunting with hounds was banned.
Hunts, especially those in the West and the south of England, claimed
that fox numbers have plummeted by more than a third since hunting
was outlawed, according to a new survey.
But the figures were rubbished by the anti hunt groups
| 18th
February 2007 |
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Fox-hunting ban strongly backed, says new poll
Most people in Britain would oppose repealing the ban on hunting,
shows a poll commissioned on the second anniversary of the law
outlawing hunting coming into force.
The Mori poll, commissioned for the League Against Cruel Sports,
the RSPCA and the International Fund for Animal Welfare, shows
that only one in six people in the UK supports Tory plans to
repeal the Hunting Act
| 18th
February 2007 |
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Fox and deer numbers falling, survey shows
Fox and deer numbers have fallen since hunting
with hounds was banned, according to figures published today by
hunt supporters. A survey was carried out among more than a third
of the 184 hunts registered with the Masters of Fox Hounds Association,
and it recorded the observations of the hunts as well as farmers
and gamekeepers.
Thirty-six per cent of hunts reported fewer
foxes than before the 2004 Hunting Act; 44 per cent found fox
numbers were the same; and 20 per cent reported more foxes
| 18th
February 2007 |
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Five held after anti-hunt protest
Five people were arrested at a hunt meeting
in Suffolk after clashes involving anti-hunt protesters.
Police said there were scuffles involving stewards from the
Essex and Suffolk Hunt and protesters at Whatfield, near Sudbury,
Suffolk.
The Hunt Saboteurs Association said police arrested three hunt
stewards, a terrier boy and a hunt monitor on suspicion of
public order offences.
No-one from the Essex and Suffolk Hunt was immediately available
for comment
| 16th
February 2007 |
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An investigation has begun after a fox
was killed during a hunt
 The
incident happened between Duddenhoe End and Langley Upper Green,
in Essex, when the fox was pursued by the pack of 25 hounds
from the Puckeridge Hunt.
Tim Vestey, joint master of the hunt, said the
trail had been laid, but that unfortunately the hounds followed
the scent of a fox
| 16th
February 2007 |
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Police called in after hunt hounds kill fox
POLICE have launched an investigation after
a fox was pursued by a pack of hounds and killed. The Puckeridge
Hunt confirmed 25 hounds chased down the animal but says the
killing was "an accident."
Laws brought in two years ago make it illegal to hunt foxes with
dogs.
The incident happened on Wednesday afternoon between Duddenhoe
End and Langley Upper Green in Essex
| 14th
February 2007 |
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Taskforce launched to crack down
on hare coursing
Animal welfare agencies, police, and rural
organisations are banding together to form an umbrella group
to root out the problem of hare coursing.
Unlike those who kill deer indiscriminately, the practice of
hunting hare is often committed by people gambling on the events,
but occurs at a similar unsociable time.
Earlier this month, Grampian Police announced details of a
taskforce set up to curb wildlife-related crime in the north-east,
including the illegal hunting of hares
| 13th
February 2007 |
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 IT'S
A DRAG AS HUNT IS HIT BY WEATHER
A BALCOMBE hunt master admitted
that many animal rights protesters believe that those involved
in fox hunting are "snobs".
Crawley and Horsham hunt master
Anthony Sandeman was speaking at a snow-hit drag hunt on the
Balcombe Estate last week.
Participants in the joint hunt with Old Surrey and Burstow and
Crawley and Horsham were forced to abandon horses and pursue
an artificial fox scent on foot at the estate around Stone Hall.
Read the truth about the Crawley
and Horsham hunt here
Hunt Supporters accused
An anti-hunting activist has accused hunt supporters
of breaking his car window and assaulting him while he was monitoring
hunts.
Mike Huskisson, was filming a hunt at Gillingham
on Saturday and alleges that someone at the Waveney Harriers
meet smeared mud on his camera lens and grabbed him by the throat.
Police are already investigating who smashed
a window of Mr Huskisson’s car during a joint meet of the
Suffolk Foxhounds and Waveney Harriers at Wissett. Police attended
to investigate the broken window, but Mr Huskisson has not yet
reported the most recent incident.
The LACS monitor said: ‘I saw nothing
illegal at the actual hunt. But when I returned to my car the
damage I found certainly was illegal. A Suffolk police spokesman
said: “We are investigating it. We would ask anyone with
information to contact PC Carl Watson on 01986 835 300.”
| 13th
February 2007 |
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 Six
on badger rap
Six alleged members of a badger-baiting ring
appeared together in court for the first time.
The five men and one teenager went
before magistrates at Bedlington charged with conspiracy to hunt
wild mammals with dogs.
It follows a long-running investigation
by Northumbria Police and the RSPCA
FERRY'S SON SPENDS NIGHT IN POLICE CELL
 BRYAN
FERRY's 24-year-old son was thrown in a police cell after a raucous
night at a BAFTAs after-show party. OTIS FERRY was cautioned
by police on Sunday night (11FEB07) after throwing a photographer's
keys into the gutter outside London nightspot Boujis, which he
was leaving with actress pal SIENNA MILLER.
Miller has been romantically linked to Otis' brother ISAAC, with
the pair spotted canoodling throughout the night. It's not the
first time Otis Ferry has had a brush with the law - he narrowly
escaped a driving ban at a court hearing last month (JAN07) and
stormed London's Houses of Parliament in 2004 in protest over
anti-hunting legislation
| 12th
February 2007 |
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SEVEN FINED FOR POACHING WITH LURCHERS
Seven men been fined after being caught poaching
in the Cotswolds.Dean Dallow, Malcolm Fletcher, Lee Garrington,
David Quinn, Scott Richards, Craig Richards and Richard Smallman
all admitted coursing - hunting for rabbits or hares with dogs.
The gang - six from the West Midlands and one from Worcestershire
- appeared before Cheltenham magistrates.
Crown Prosecutor Sharon Jomaa described how they were caught
with lurchers overnight on January 7 near Dumbleton
| 12th
February 2007 |
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Police under fire over hunt ban law
 DEMONSTRATORS
in fancy dress gathered outside Warwickshire Police HQ claiming
officers were still not enforcing the ban on hunting.
Members of the Coventry Animal Alliance, dressed as robbers,
gangsters and hunt masters, called the protest because they believe
police are allowing hunters to flout the law.
Group spokesman John Curtin, aged 44, of Adelaide Street, Hillfields,
and five other members got together on the anniversary of the
death of 18-year-old Mike Hill, who was killed while trying to
stop a hunt in Cheshire
| 12th
February 2007 |
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Hunt supporters vow to overturn
ban
 HUNT
supporters last night pledged to overturn the “ridiculous” fox-hunting
ban as the two-year anniversary of its launch looms.
Thursday will mark two years to the day since the Government
passed a ban on fox-hunting.
And a major meet was held at 10.45am on Saturday, at Glemham
Hall, in Little Glemham, near Woodbridge, ahead of the milestone
| 9th
February 2007 |
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ANGER AT ALLIANCE
CALL TO SABOTAGE ANTI-HUNT VIDEOS
Hunt leaders have urged their supporters
to pretend they are being harassed or assaulted by anti-hunt
monitors in a bid to sabotage video evidence.
The West's director of the Countryside Alliance said
the astonishing tip came from a police officer, who advised
the best way to scupper any video evidence taken by monitors
was to make up stories about being abused by those doing
the filming. read more
Last night, anti-hunt campaigners accused the Alliance
of encouraging supporters to mislead the courts and the
police
| 9th
February 2007 |
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Huntsman guilty of assault
 A
Dulverton Farmers huntsman has been found guilty of assault after
he rode his horse at hunt monitors.
Anthony Allibone, 49, of The Kennels, East Anstey,
had pleaded not guilty to assault on pensioner Yvonne Nichola,
66, who was monitoring the hunt near Brushford when the incident
happened in March last year.
But, after a seven-hour trial today, West Somerset
magistrates sitting at Minehead ordered him to pay £100
compensation to Ms Nichola, and a fine of £100
HUNTSMAN ON ASSAULT
CHARGE
Huntsman Anthony Allibone will appear
before magistrates tomorrow charged with assaulting a Tiverton
pensioner.Yvonne Nicola, 66, was monitoring the Dulverton Farmers'
hunt for the League Against Cruel Sports last March when she
was allegedly hit by Allibone, who denies a charge of common
assault.
The trial, at Minehead Magistrates' Court, is expected to
take one day
| 7th
February 2007 |
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Pro-Hunt Supporter is 'Nailed'
 A
woman hunt supporter has been given a police caution after trying
to puncture a tyre on a hunt monitor's car with a nail hidden
in a Mars bar.
The bizarre attack took place in
the Cotswolds as the Heythrop Hunt was riding on the Gloucestershire
and Oxfordshire border last month
| 7th
February 2007 |
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Hunt under fire again
after hounds 'run riot'’
A WEEK after two pet cats were torn
to pieces during its annual Ballymoyer hunt, the Newry
Harriers have been accused of losing control of a pack
of hounds, allowing the dogs to run through the streets
of Bessbrook.
A local source said the incident occurred shortly after
1.30pm on January 29 and resulted in a large number of
hounds running loose in the Millvale Road and Main Street
areas of the village before the huntsmen were able to
round them up again
| 4th
February 2007 |
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Thousands gather for annual
hare coursing event
Tipperary will become the Mecca
for hare coursing fans during the next three days.
The 82nd annual Irish Championships meeting in Clonmel will draw
30,000 fans and generate €18m for the local economy.
Thousands of spectators from Britain, continental Europe and
the US will pack Powerstown Park, which has hosted the annual
showpiece since 1925.
The venue will stage the Oaks and Derby competitions, each of
which has a winners’ prize fund of €35,000
| 2nd
February 2007 |
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North Shropshire Hunt fine
On 30 January 2007, the North Shropshire Hunt
pleaded guilty at Market Drayton Magistrates Court to four charges
relating to breaching a discharge consent to the River Roden
between May 2005 and December 2005.
The North Shropshire Hunt was fined a total
of £3,000 and
ordered to pay costs of £1,181.10. The Environment Agency
brought the charges under the Water Resources Act 1991.
For the Environment Agency, Kiran Cassini
told the court that the North Shropshire Hunt was allowed to discharge
treated sewage effluent into the River Roden from a treatment plant
serving the kennels and three dwellings at Lee Brockhurst, Shropshire
| 2nd
February 2007 |
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Pregnant woman in fear of
hunt dogs
NORTH Ledbury Hunt says it was following an
artificially laid trail when two of its hounds ran into the garden
of a home in Ashperton.
Rebecca Cummings, of Haywood Lane, claims she
was laughed at by hunt members as she tried to save her two cats
from the hounds in her garden.
Neither Mrs Cummings, who is pregnant, nor her
cats suffered any injury
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