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‘Don’t believe all you see on Facebook’: police warning over anti-hunting posts
Information posted on social media about hunting is often inaccurate, incomplete and “does not reflect the full scenario”, a police force has warned. Cheshire Police has set out its stance on hunting...
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Jamie Stewart: Giving up is not an option *H&H VIP*
Opinion On 21 July 1999, Labour MSP Mike Watson announced plans to put forward a member’s bill in the Scottish Parliament to ban hunting with dogs in Scotland. After months of discussions and hours of...
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Showjumping star retires to the hunting field: ‘he has taken to it like a...
Billy Grand and William Funnell in the 2014 Derby Trial at HicksteadHickstead star Billy Grand is enjoying a new adventure following a top-level showjumping career. The 17-year-old gelding, who won the...
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Steven Ashworth: A declining breed of hound *H&H VIP*
Opinion As the end of the season approaches, a move to the Derwent is on the cards for me and my family. But what a debt of gratitude I owe to the studbook harrier. I have had the pleasure of hunting...
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Charles Frampton: For the pure love of it *H&H VIP*
Opinion While standing in front of the magnificent Badminton House last week listening to Capt Farquhar’s farewells as master of the famous Beaufort hounds after a lifetime in hunting, it got me...
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Andrew Sallis: Experience has taught me to embrace it *H&H VIP*
Opinion Tin hats at the ready — it’s AGM season. The mere mention is enough to turn some MFHs to stone. Once a year, anyone with a toe in the hunt’s door has the opportunity to hold their hunt...
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Daniel Cherriman: I always have an appetite for more hunting *H&H VIP*
HUNTING HOUNDS LEGSMarch hails the end of the hunting season for most, although some areas of the West Country continue well into the spring, as was traditionally the case in the Lakeland fells,...
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Barrister with a passion for hunting suffers fatal injuries in fall
Library image. Tributes have been paid to a leading figure in the pro-hunting campaign who died after a fall. Dominic Webber, former chairman of the East Sussex branch of the Countryside Alliance,...
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Hunt hound enjoys R&R at canine hydrotherapy pool
A hound from the Vale of the White Horse (VWH) hunt has been enjoying some R&R at a canine hydrotherapy pool as he recuperates from an injury. Honiton 2018 champion foxhound Folklore has been...
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John Holliday: I've been reduced to a mere raffle prize *H&H VIP*
So it has come to this. At the hugely successful hunt ball, held in Belvoir Castle by permission of the Duke of Rutland, I was won in the raffle. There was a time when my services were auctioned off....
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Robert McCarthy: I smile to myself when people ask ‘what will you do when...
When you see lambs out in the fields and tractors out spraying or fertilising, it normally means that the trail-hunting season is nearing its end. I smile to myself when people ask, “What will you do...
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Charles Frampton: If you want to be on TV at the Festival, go slowly *H&H VIP*
Our season came to an abrupt end due to kennel cough. It was a rather sad way to end, without our normal Cheltenham Wednesday meet. It is always a fun day with many visiting masters and hunt staff as...
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8 things to do now the hunting season’s (nearly) over
The end of another hunting season brings with it feelings of sadness – what on earth are we going to do for the next few months? – and a little bit of relief to have made it in one piece. But before...
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Richard Gurney: Sharing is the way forward *H&H VIP*
Richard Gurney (Joint Master) and fieldWith the season now over, our thoughts turned to our first point-to-point and then quickly to a date that is fast becoming not only an important fundraiser, but...
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John Holliday: Proactivity, not appeasement *H&H VIP*
During February the Cattistock paid us a visit. They had an extremely successful day despite testing conditions and their hounds hunted superbly and never stopped trying. George Pierce, their...
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Charles Frampton: People change things too quickly *H&H VIP*
It was bag-packing time for some last week as they headed to their new positions in hunting. By now, the new staff will have met their hounds and started the huge task of getting to know the new...
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‘Dream come true’ as Pony Clubbers join Beaufort hounds’ parade at Badminton
Members of the Beaufort Hunt branch of the Pony Club had a “dream come true” last week when they were invited to gallop round the main arena at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials in front of...
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Richard Gurney: Where is the balance? *H&H VIP*
The media frenzy with Brexit has done little to solve anything surrounding it. But what it has done once again is identify people on both sides who are incapable of a “clean fight” when debating the...
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Council to consider banning trail-hunting on its land
Library image.A vote on whether trail-hunting should be banned on a local authority’s land is set to be held this week. Councillor Lee Scordis, of Essex County Council, is proposing the motion at the...
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‘Entirely illogical’ plan to ban trail-hunting voted down
Library image.Essex county councillors have voted against a motion calling for trail-hunting to be banned on council-owned land, after a “pointless and divisive” debate. At a full council meeting...
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