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As the new hunting season begins today, animal rights activists are threatening to disrupt meets as "observers", as well as joining hunts undercover. The saboteurs will film constantly using new telescopic lenses so hunts can be monitored from a distance. They will also use hidden cameras in clothing and time-delay devices dotted around the countryside. (edit) Hunting was banned in 2005 but since then the number of people taking part in the sport has continued to increase, with 50,000 mounted followers expected this year compared to 40,000 in 2004. This year there are expected to be a further 50,000...

Lest we forget Flashback: 15 September 2004: A demonstration against the fox hunting Bill, outside Parliament: Instantly, the police responded with a flail of truncheons. For a moment, they resembled beaters driving birds towards guns. They were scenes more associated with the clash of police and shaven-headed football hooligans or dreadlocked anti-capitalist demonstrators rather than men in flat caps and women in quilted waistcoats. In a flurry of violence, people were hurt by the impact of truncheons and by the crush of people pushing forward to join the pre-planned sitdown. Archie Norman, the Conservative MP, who had come out to...

Sunday, February 05, 2006 Lest we forget Flashback: 15 September 2004: A demonstration against the fox hunting Bill, outside Parliament: Instantly, the police responded with a flail of truncheons. For a moment, they resembled beaters driving birds towards guns. They were scenes more associated with the clash of police and shaven-headed football hooligans or dreadlocked anti-capitalist demonstrators rather than men in flat caps and women in quilted waistcoats. In a flurry of violence, people were hurt by the impact of truncheons and by the crush of people pushing forward to join the pre-planned sitdown. Archie Norman, the Conservative MP, who...

It is four years since my mother died; as I stood at her grave on Thursday, it struck me that were she to come back now, while the little churchyard folded into Lancashire’s Trough of Bowland may look the same, the country we live in has changed entirely. My mother died on 13 February 2001, just before news of the foot and mouth outbreak was made public and Britain was filled with the stench of burning carcasses. A couple of hounds, as well as her family, witnessed her coffin lowered into the vault as one of the joint masters of...

Hunts attacked for 'brandishing dead foxes in PR stunt' By Valerie Elliott, Countryside Editor HUNTSMEN who brandished the carcasses of foxes in defiance of the ban on hunting were attacked yesterday for their “triumphalism”. Anti-hunt campaigners were confident that there would be prosecutions for the unlawful killing of some of these trophy foxes. But Michael Foster, Labour MP for Worcester, who first tried to introduce a ban eight years ago, denounced the parade of dead foxes as a PR stunt by the Countryside Alliance and felt his campaign to ban the use of dogs to kill foxes had been vindicated....

Almost 100 foxes were reported killed by hunts across Britain yesterday during a mass show of defiance by foxhunters against the Government ban on their sport. Hunts including the Tynedale, the Spooners and West Dartmoor, the Bicester, and the South Shropshire all said that they had killed foxes, although each insisted that they had done so in accordance with the new law permitting foxes to be flushed out by no more than two hounds and shot. The Countryside Alliance, which said that the tally of dead animals was 91, also claimed that the law had not been broken. Yesterday's tally...

Four men have been arrested by police in Wiltshire in what is believed to be the first arrests under the new hunting legislation. The men were found on an unclassified road near Malmesbury, with four dogs and the carcass of a hare. A 53-year-old from Ireland and three men, aged 31, 32 and 33, from South Wales were arrested on suspicion of hunting with dogs. The four have now been released on police bail pending further inquiries. This [ban] may take two or three years, perhaps two or three months, to unpick Countryside Alliance Chief Executive Simon Hart The men,...

Hunting ban challenge fails A renewed attempt by the Countryside Alliance to overturn Parliament's ban on hunting with dogs has failed in the Court of Appeal. Three senior judges headed by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, rejected argument that the 1949 Parliament Act, which MPs used to force through the Hunting Act in the face of opposition from the House of Lords, was invalid. The Hunting Act, which outlaws fox-hunting, deer-hunting and hare-coursing with dogs, is set to come into force on Friday. The appeal judges described the challenge to the Act as "unusual, and in modern times probably...

The end of part of England - As soon as I see Bertha’s rear end backing down the tailgate towards me, I think there has been some mistake. They told me they would find a nice quiet mare, given that I have never been riding before. Advancing upon me are the towering bay buttocks of the biggest horse I have ever seen. In a daze, I mount the stool, held for me by Di Grisselle, joint master, shove one foot in the stirrup and try to swing myself over. Bertha chooses that moment to reverse, and I begin my first...

50,000 prepare to defy hunting ban on its first weekend By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor (Filed: 13/02/2005) About 50,000 people are to defy the ban on hunting which comes into force this week by taking part in choreographed trail hunts at the weekend using foxes that were killed earlier. Up to 250 hunts will demonstrate their intention to survive by congregating at pubs, village greens and town centres across England and Wales on Saturday in one of the biggest mass meets in history. Although all those taking part will ostensibly be setting off on legal trail hunts, with packs...

On my show Thursday, you heard FOX News' Douglas Kennedy's report on PETA and the troubles they are having once somebody turns the tables on them. It reminded me of how the PETA folks — along with some others — have managed to get fox hunting banned in Great Britain. Of course the Brits have their hearts on their sleeves about everybody and everything: What did you do for tsunami victims today; what did you do for AIDS today, what did you do for Africa today? This jihad was about those cute red foxes, which, it turns out, have become...

Hunting takes on biggest hurdleBy Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor(Filed: 13/01/2005)The Government "confidently" expects the courts to uphold the validity of the Hunting Act 2004, Alun Michael, the minister for rural affairs, told Parliament on Tuesday. Yet the Countryside Alliance is equally confident that its forthcoming challenge will succeed.At a hearing on Jan 25, Sir Sydney Kentridge, QC, for the Alliance, will tell the High Court that "the Hunting Act 2004 is not an Act of Parliament and is of no legal effect". How does he reach this apparently startling conclusion?To answer this, we must go back to the Parliament...

Our local hunt met yesterday, as it always does at this time, on the site of the Battle of Hastings. This year, the crowd of supporters was so great that traffic stopped altogether and horses and hounds had to cram against the gates of the abbey to make room. A few yards away, on the frosty ground, is the site where Harold fell, shot through the eye, and our nation was born. If a new Bayeux tapestry were now being weaved to depict the battle of hunting, what would it show for 2005? A great conflict on Feb 19 –...

A foxhunters’ exodus is under way from Britain to the land of the free Tomorrow morning Dennis Downing, splendid in his scarlet coat, will be up early to oversee the hounds — particularly his old favourites Gossip and Gorgeous. About 70 people will join the meet, including his wife Sue and 19-year-old daughter Emma, and a further 30 will come to see off the hunt, armed with the customary offering of port. The Boxing Day meet, the biggest on the hunt calendar, is being held a day late as it has fallen on a Sunday, but otherwise everything will be...

orget the soiled bedsheets and pickled animals, British art has taken another outrageous turn in an example of the unspeakable swallowing the uneatable. Performance artist Mark McGowan, who counts among his feats pushing a peanut along the road to Tony Blair's Downing street home with his nose, has eaten a fox, in protest at the public fixation with a government ban on fox hunting. He described the roast fox, which he ate in public, as quite tasty, although he admitted to nearly vomiting at times. "It was a bit like rack of lamb," he told Reuters on Wednesday. "The trouble...

SEVENTY per cent of the public believe the police should not enforce the ban on hunting when the legislation comes into effect in February. An opinion poll, conducted for a Sunday newspaper, found that seven out of 10 of those questioned believed that police officers should concentrate on other areas of crime once hunting with hounds becomes illegal. Only 20 per cent said that they thought the police should be used to enforce the ban. Seven per cent said that officers should give equal emphasis to tackling hunting and other crimes. Cumbria police have not revealed how they would enforce...

Fox News - The hunting ban is a victory for Britain's urban bullies. BY LIONEL SHRIVER Sunday, November 28, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST LONDON--With Britain's Black Watch regiment camped in harm's way outside of Baghdad, the spectacle of Labour members of Parliament going rabid about banning fox hunting must have looked, at any distance, impenetrably quaint. Overriding the House of Lords by invoking the Parliament Act for only the fourth time since it was passed in 1911, antihunt MPs successfully closed down a centuries-old sport firmly fixed in the international imagination as quintessentially British. But at issue is not merely...

Farmers take action on hunt ban A campaign of non co-operation has been launched by South West farmers incensed at the ban on hunting. In north Devon, two farming families have decided to end co-operation with utilities companies in protest at the hunting ban. They claim they are exercising their right to restrict access to their land because the government is denying them the right to hunt. Fox hunting will be banned in England and Wales from next February. Pat and Raymond Ford are withdrawing permission for an overhead electricity line due to be built across their land at Alverdiscott,...

The passing of the Hunting Act banning the centuries old sport of fox hunting means that the issue looks set to cast a long shadow over the forthcoming General Election campaign. The outcome of yesterday’s events in Parliament could hardly have been worse for Tony Blair, who right to the bitter end had hoped that a compromise solution could be found. The act will now come into effect on February 18, less than three months before the expected date of the election. It raises the prospect of a campaign dominated by pro-hunt protests and stunts designed to upset Labour’s prospects...