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Chris Packham may have just become the President of The League Against Cruel Sports (LACS), but when it comes to disruptive and sanctimonious wildlife personalities, he has always been in a league of his own. A fitting appointment, given his longstanding opposition to trail hunting. In a statement published on
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Since late September, hunts across England and Wales have been receiving emails from the University of Bristol. The first, sent on 23 September to honorary secretaries, announced that “The University of Bristol is conducting” a survey of trail hunts. A reminder followed on 7 October. Both were courteous, professional and
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The familiar autumnal feeling has dawned across the country. Darker nights closing in, crisper mornings. For large swathes of the English countryside, the seasonal change brings an air of excitement as the trail hunting season kicks off again. However, in UK politics, the arrival of autumn also signals conference season,
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West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs have begun staging what they call pop-up protests outside businesses in Shipston on Stour, starting on Thursday evening with The Bower House restaurant and B&B while it was hosting a charity supper with Dame Prue Leith. Video seen by BTM shows the group’s
North Dorset Hunt Saboteurs
Location: Sherborne Affiliations: North Dorset Hunt Saboteurs Let's set the scene. Rose Reay comes from a family of artists and was schooled in Sherborne. She went on to the Screen and Film School in Brighton, a place built to send young people into film and television. Hollywood, it
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Earlier this month, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary announced a crackdown on masked protesters. Using new powers under the Crime and Policing Act, officers will stop people at protests from hiding their faces. The trigger was masked demonstrators at anti-migrant protests in Dover and Portsmouth. However, for the hunting
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The Countryside Alliance launched its Campaign for the Countryside in Westminster on 14 September and did not struggle for big names. Lord Cameron warned there is "no national security unless you have food security". He attacked "stupid moves such as the family farm tax" and was
Sabs Unmasked
Location: London Affiliations: North London Hunt Sabs Elric Newby is a painter and decorator by trade and, at weekends, a DJ at Metal Devastation and hunt saboteur with the North London Hunt Sabs. In other words, a man who has built his life around volume and disruption. By his own
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A Dorset hunt saboteur whose assault allegation against a huntswoman ended in acquittal was previously convicted of attacking an elderly hunt supporter. Alexandra Dennis, of North Dorset Hunt Saboteurs, was the complainant in the case against Sophie Tuffin, who was cleared by magistrates in August. The Tuffin case In August
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On 27 August, District Judge Barnes threw out animal welfare charges against both directors of Cheshire Forest Hunt Limited. He did it at half time, on a submission of no case to answer, before either woman had said a word in her own defence. The prosecution evidence, he found, was
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Over the last few months, BTM has started to notice factions arising in the hunt saboteur community. But these aren’t just minor tiffs; they are rooted in power struggles and sab politics. From personal spats between leaders of neighbouring saboteur groups to criticism of the Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA)
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It is not often that the sab movement submits itself for examination. This month, Lynne Graham's 496-page doctoral thesis appeared on Northumbria University's research portal, entitled: No Justice, Just Us: A qualitative mixed methods ethnographic study of organised foxhunting and anti-hunt activism in England and Wales.