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Punishing Pubs and Running Over Pensioners - The Secrets of Suffolk Action for Wildlife (SAF)

Originally Suffolk Against Foxhunting, Suffolk Action for Wildlife (SAF) was created in 2021 by Anna Bye as a volunteer-based hunt monitoring and disrupting organisation. The group is still chaired by Bye, a local mortgage broking business owner, and now covers most of Suffolk, helping local hunt saboteur organisations to disrupt

Sabs Unmasked

Lynne Ann Graham

Northumberland · Director of Northumberland Watch, North East Hunt Monitors

Northumberland

Michelle Smith

Gateshead, Northumberland · Geordie Hunt Sabs, Teesside  Against Blood Sports (TABS), Newcastle Hunt Saboteurs

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EXCLUSIVE: East Yorkshire Coast hunt sab arrested after allegedly assaulting huntsman

Behind The Masks can exclusively reveal that a member of the East Yorkshire Coast Hunt Sabs has been arrested and questioned by the police following an incident with a member of the Derwent Hunt on Saturday. Mark Fothergill was arrested by North Yorkshire Police on suspicion of assault. He has

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Sally Field

Norfolk · Norfolk Hunt Saboteurs, Suffolk Hunt Saboteurs

Kent

Carly Ahlen

Dartford, Kent · Surrey Hunt Sabs, Kent Hunt Sabs, Founder of Gabo Wildlife, League Against Cruel Sports

South Yorkshire

Ben Lindsay

Barnsley, South Yorkshire

Sabs Unmasked

Gemma Barnes

Norfolk · Norwich Saboteurs

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REVEALED: Man charged with assault by beating at a women’s rights protest is hunt saboteur

A man was charged with two counts of assault by beating after throwing soup over women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen in Sheffield on 21 September. Behind The Masks can now reveal that the alleged assaulter – named by the police as Ben Lindsay, 34 of Fitzwilliam Street, Barnsley – is a

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BREAKING: Hunt saboteur arrested outside Wynnstay Kennels

A hunt saboteur was arrested outside of the Wynnstay Hunt Kennels on 2 October in connection to an incident where an 18-year-old hunt member was reportedly followed in a car. According to sources, four carloads of hunt saboteurs, believed to have been from Liverpool, tried to follow some hunt members

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EXCLUSIVE: Two Kent hunt sabs charged with harassment

Two Kent hunt saboteurs, Harry Blackhurst and Robert Bridger, have been charged with harassment. The pair appeared before Margate Magistrates' Court in mid-August and their trial is due to begin on 30 April 2025. Blackhurst, who is a senior recruitment manager at global logistics platform Flexport, is the spokesperson

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EXPOSED: Labour’s murky links to anti-hunt activists and organisations

In December 2023, Lord Mandelson made the extraordinary confession that in 1996 then-Labour leader Tony Blair accepted a £1 million donation from Brian Davies, founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, in order to end fox hunting. “I’ve known for many years that Labour’s Hunting Act 2004