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A skulk of sanctimonious sabs arrived at Leicester Square theatre on Monday 6 July to be entertained by an array of comedians, BBC hosts and sabotage sympathisers alike. Whilst the comedy evening was labelled as ‘Up the Anti’, Daniel Foxx’s BBC show ‘Welcome to Hell’ might be a better
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The BBC has confirmed that Winterwatch will not return after 14 years, retired in favour of a video podcast called Naturewatch. The corporation attributes the decision to an "evolving commissioning strategy" and to the wider funding squeeze that has already claimed 550 jobs as part of a £500
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Location: Dorset Affiliations: Weymouth Animal Rights Ross 'Spider' Day, part of the Weymouth Animal Rights, is a menacing sab known to have followed a hunt supporter nearly 10 miles with a car full of his crew members. Day has also been reported to have verbally abused an elderly
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Location: East Yorkshire Affiliation: Hull Wildlife Protectors, Protect the Wild, Rehome the Hounds Charlotte Smith, an active supporter of Protect the Wild and a notable figure in their campaign Rehome the Hounds, has been caught in quite a pickle. She was spotted at the LACS rally on 9 May outside
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Rob Pownall promised the Makerfield by-election would be a "national platform" to end hunting with hounds. The voters of Makerfield returned a verdict: 18 of them agreed. For weeks, the founder of Protect the Wild told anyone who would listen that the Makerfield by-election was his chance to
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On the eve of the consultation deadline, campaigners and their hounds brought the fight to DEFRA's doorstep, and a Labour peer led the charge against her own government. 24 hours before the government's consultation on trail hunting closes for good, the countryside brought its answer to
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At the League Against Cruel Sports rally outside Parliament on 9 May, a foxhound lay quietly at the campaigners' feet. Handled by Charlotte Smith of the Hull Wildlife Protectors, it became the unofficial mascot of the day, photographed alongside the broadcaster Chris Packham and his stepdaughter, the presenter Megan
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On 18 June, voters in Makerfield will go to the polls in a by-election that could return Andy Burnham to Parliament and trigger a Labour leadership contest. The same day, the Defra consultation on banning trail hunting closes. It is worth asking why twelve MPs have spent the run-up to
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Location: Gloucestershire Affiliation: Welsh Border Hunt Saboteurs Gina Doyle is a well-known figure among Welsh Border Hunt Sabs. Quiet and discreet in the field, she is rarely seen without a camera, documenting legal trail hunts and ready to twist any scenario to favour the sabs’ account of events. There is
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Hunt saboteurs are no strangers to confronting those who support legal trail hunting. Over the years, their tactics have become depressingly familiar: harassment, stalking, verbal abuse and physical intimidation – all disguised as activism. Even against that grim backdrop, however, the recent conduct of one sab has managed to lower the
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Billed as a watershed moment, a rally that would shift the anti-trail hunting debate and energise the movement, the Leage Against Cruel Sports' (LACS) rally outside Parliament on Saturday 9 May was something of a damp squib, defined by minimal attendees and somewhat baffling speeches. It was just the