www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z2ZVslPc4IEd Swales and Ronan Brown from Hunting Kind join Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas theatre at the Game Fair 2024, to explain how hunting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubFb-8geD6U Labour sided with the miners during their strike in the 1980s, as many miners turned to their rich tradition of hunting with lurchers to
Charlie Pye-Smith leads a panel in Dulverton on Exmoor to talk about how successive Westminster governments, starting with Tony Blair’s government in 2004, have failed
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wcf32tsaVM What to look for in a foxhound: Charlie travels to the Irish Masters of Foxhounds Association 2023 hound show at Stradbally Hall, where the
by Deborah Hadfield For a people who have seen more than their share of fighting, the anti-hunting lobby is drawing up new battle lines. In
by Deborah Hadfield The Scottish Countryside Alliance is appealing to the Scottish government not to ignore its evidence during the passage of the Hunting with
Opinion by Charlie Jacoby Anti-hunting civil servants are clever. Like spetznaz sleepers, they look like normal people and do their jobs to the best of
by Deborah Hadfield The League Against Cruel Sports has introduced a Hunting with Dogs bill for Scotland to replace the law it wrote in 2002.
Breaking news: The Northern Ireland Assembly has rejected John Blair MLA’s private member’s bill which sought to ban hunting wild animals with dogs in Northern
Tony Blair’s foxhunting ban didn’t help the fox. That’s the conclusion of a new book, which shows up the failure of Blair’s 2004 Hunting Act.
Updated 26 November 2020 Sabs have been celebrating after claiming on 13 November 2020 to expose “a nationwide conspiracy” by hunters they insist are flouting
The connection between National Hunt racing, which originated as steeplechasing, and foxhunting stemmed from the early 16th century when changes in the agricultural landscape meant
Hunts all over the country offer hound sponsorship – and it’s probably cheaper than you think. Typically, they send you photos in a frame of
Hound packs all over the UK are preparing to go ahead as normal in the coming season, with some extra social-distancing rules (such as no
Probably the maddest horse race in the country, more than 60 horses signed up for the Ledbury Hunt’s Golden Button challenge on Saturday 23 February
Anticipation was in the air as thousands of people turned out in all weathers for Boxing Day meets all over the country. Anticipation of the
The Southern African Wildlife College on the edge of the Kruger National Park in South Africa is trying out a new method to stop poachers.
Who owns the fittest dogs? The hound trailers of Cumbria reckon it is them. Their foxhounds race a 10-miles aniseed trail in just 30 minutes,
It is the opening meet of the UK’s newest pack of basset hounds. The Woolaston’s country is in Gloucestershire, on the Chepstow side of the
In some countries they are treated as rural heroes. The UK has a long way to go. There is a small group of men dedicated
A party of Americans is over in the UK to enjoy the traditional English sport of foxhunting. They are out with one of the best
What do terriermen do? Terrierman Martin Clarke from Somerset explains the job from start to finish: how they are the backbone of the hunt, how
They’re dogged up and ready to rabbit. When Sporting Rifle’s Tim Pilbeam wanted to show off the best of British sport, he thought ‘lurchers’. Cue
He is the top news item from this year’s CLA Game Fair. UKIP leader Nigel Farage sets out where David Cameron has gone wrong with
A bowhunter needs help to try and find a roebuck which didn’t fall. Dajarna is also one of only a handful of trained trackers in
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Hunting Bear with Hounds When we go down to the woods today we’re in for a big surprise – we hope! … we are going
It is one of the greatest hunting hound sports in the world – and you are not allowed to do it anymore. We’re on one
The season of 2012/2013 is the fiftieth since men first came out of the coal pit in Banwen, South Wales, and founded the Banwen Miners
Olympic shooting star Peter Wilson tries out the new Holland & Holland Sporter, enjoys the South Dorset Hunt, talks Olympics and Rio 2016 and hangs
The Heythrop Hunt has pleaded guilty to four counts of unlawfully hunting a wild fox with dogs. So why is that? The RSPCA is too
Nicky Sadler follows the Ledbury Hunt, hunting within the law, in its Friday country, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. Hounds are known to have hunted the
Foxhunting? It’s got a future. Shooting? nobody’s going to ban it. Barney White-Spunner is the new executive chairman of the Countryside Alliance and he has
The Yorkshire Dales are a paradise for rabbits. In order to save the grass for the sheep, that means a lot of fun ferreting and
We join the Blencathra for a snowy day at Caldbeck, the home of the famous huntsman John Peel, known from the song “D’ye ken John
Hunt staff are taking an NVQ1 in animal care and health & Safety, backed by the Countryside Alliance and run by Haddon Training from Wiltshire.
We talk to the new chief executive of the Countryside Alliance Alice Barnard about politics and the future of foxhunting, as she goes to a
So how do you do a job you love knowing that what you do may possibly be illegal? In this film for the Countryside Alliance,
It is the opening meet of the Chiddingfold, Leconfield & Cowdray hounds – the Chid & Lec – at Petworth House in Sussex, home of
Could you ask for better sport? The Lakeland fells covered in brick red bracken with a bright blue sky atop, its time to go fellhunting
Philip Ghazala is a new joint master of the West Somerset Hunt and he has to cope with all the pressures that role brings. This
The foxhunting ban may be increasingly toothless but it has had one marked effect. Foxshooting has become incredibly popular. One of its champions is an
The British countrysports debate programme. Filmed at the Countryside Alliance headquarters in London, on the panel is: Countryside Alliance head of media Tim Bonner, BASC
Panellists on the new countrysports webTV debate programme Shooting Politics lay into the RSPB for its attacks on gamekeepers, its attempt to ‘monster’ countryside managers
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