Is a Midland Game Fair rescue underway?
One of the companies connected with the organisers of the Midland Game Fair may be saved by its lenders or investors in a ‘pre-pack administration’.
One of the companies connected with the organisers of the Midland Game Fair may be saved by its lenders or investors in a ‘pre-pack administration’.
We are not helpless when antis attack our shoots, our hunts or our birds and animals. A former police intelligence officer offers his armoury of
Here are the items Mayor of Liverpool attacks shooting sports – Fieldsports News Boris Johnson wants to ban hunting tourism – Fcha.nl/boris Stop Chris Packham in Yorkshire
UK prime minister Boris Johnson plans hunting bans that threaten all shooting sports. His first move, with DEFRA minister, animal rights activist and fellow old
Here are the links British Shooting Show ban – Fieldsports News Antis won’t save black rhino – Facebook Zac Goldsmith to drive through foreign
First it was hunting tourism they didn’t like, now it’s legal gun ownership. After successfully banning the British Shooting Show Liverpool from taking place
In this week’s news: Boris Johnson cracks down on hunting tourism – The Times Two British Shooting Shows in 2020 ShootingShow.co.uk Antis frightening hunters
The Welsh government has banned the shooting of several birds under new general licences. Due to come into force on 7 October 2019, there are
In this week’s news: New general licences survey Bit.ly/defrasurvey Calor Gas gives £5,000 to LACS – website Gloucestershire shooters winning the ‘boar war’ RSPCA kills
A turkey that lived semi-wild on a shoot was impounded by the RSPCA and then killed. Camilla the turkey became the mascot of a shoot
A turkey that lived semi-wild on a shoot was impounded by the RSPCA and then killed. Camilla the turkey became the mascot of the Redhill
The new trend of ‘skeletonising’ rifles has reached Ruger. Maker of probably the most customised rimfire in the world, Sturm, Ruger & Company introduces a
In this week’s news: Scotland wild mammal consultation – website UK consultation on firearms licensing – website Perruque buck (it’s a fallow, not a roe
The London-based Daily Mirror, Evening Standard and Sun have lashed out at children who go on hunting holidays. The news websites put up photographs of
In this week’s news: RSPB’s birdcrime report Capercaillie heads for extinction thanks to RSPB – blog Wales plans to stop some pest bird control Gamekeeping
TV wildlife presenter Chris Packham says he is not against shooting birds. On stage with fellow members of birds rights pressure group Wild Justice, the
Mass trespass of grouse shoots is underway, as antis in black balaclavas take to the moors to try to stop shooters enjoy the Glorious 12th.
A small group of bedraggled League Against Cruel Sports supporters in Bradford, West Yorkshire, city centre, protesting against grouse shooting, were hampered by pro-shooting campaigner
A disease that has jumped from rabbits to hares briefly led to a ban on coursing in Ireland. Following the first confirmed case of type
Chris Packham’s Wild Justice group has withdrawn its latest legal action against the Government over the general licences saying it has ‘run out of time’.
Last week, activists hit a small family game farm in Kent. They struck in the middle of the night and released thousands of birds to
Managing Britain’s uplands is more about managing media attacks these days. Bewildered grousemoor keepers and other estate staff are reeling from attacks by Chris Packham
DEFRA’s most vexatious litigant is at it again. Wild Justice is crowdfunding a £40,000 legal bill that will allow its solicitor to write a letter
New visitors to Bisley Shooting Ground at the top end of Bisley Camp will now have to find it using their satnavs. The NRA has
Jay Tiernan is a militant vegan, who stamps on badger traps and condones the cutting of wire to release pheasants from game farms. The face
DEFRA secretary Michael Gove has moved from big game hunting supporter to anti hunter. The British government minister writes an article for the 14 July
It’s the battle for who runs the countryside: Dr Mark Avery is part of the Wild Justice group which successfully stopped the general licences, he
Pressure from animal rights activists has scared the NEC Bimingham into banning hunting guides from exhibiting at the Great British Shooting Show in 2020. Please
Austrian optics manufacturer Swarovski has launched a new all-round riflescope to add to its Z8i line. Aimed at the Hunter who might be shooting long-range
The China Hunting Show is underway at the National Convention & Exhibition Centre in Shanghai. The first hunting show in China, 55 exhibitors from all
Sea eagles reintroduced to Scotland are preying on healthy lambs, it has been formally acknowledged for the first time. Crofters have long believed that the
The hatching of hen harrier chicks at nests on a private estate for the second year running “gives hope for the future”, the RSPB has
As the UK general licences chaos continues, we go to the Netherlands to see how they shoot pest birds there. We join shooters Igor Timmermans
Five years ago, Julie Wright, a single woman from Slough in Berkshire, had two happy Staffordshire bull terrier crosses, Jack and Homer. Both of them
Charlie Jacoby sits in on the parliamentary committee charged with finding out what went wrong at Natural England to have caused such chaos with the
We visit Cheverton Farm on the Isle of Wight, where ravens, crows and other birds have killed 200 lambs in spring 2019. The farm has
Shooters, farmers and other country people are planning a London March on Saturday 29 June 2019. It starts at 11am at Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park,
The first of the new general licences is not fit for purpose, the second ‘appalling’. That’s what shooting organisations are telling Natural England. The National
Two shooters – the same problem. How do they shoot pest birds legally? Shooter A is a pest controller on a large arable farm in
As the general licences chaos rumbles on, Packham has been on British television at his manipulating worst. Speaking to Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain,
Crow’s out after jackdaws just before the government withdraws the general licences. He has a good day – but he explains what the havoc caused
Here is this week’s news stump: ▶ Sea eagles catch lambs ▶ Packham manipulates the media ▶ Piers Morgan’s anti-hunting crusade ▶ Game meat
Celebrity anti-hunting campaigner Piers Morgan is floored on his own chat show, by a hunter who calmly explains to him how the maths of elephant
There are unconfirmed reports that England’s nuclear power stations have cancelled pest control while Natural England solves the general licences debacle. Under pressure from animal
A petition on the petitions website Change.org, asking the BBC to sack its star presenter Chris Packham, is on course to hit 100,000 signatures in
Heads will roll. MPs furious about the general licences debacle want sackings. Most likely to lose their jobs are Marian Spain, acting chief executive Natural
General licences shambles Fcha.nl/generallicences Should gamekeepers be compulsory? ALF kills more pheasants The Times takes on a 27-year-old YouTuber Yorkshire beavers Josh James Kiwi Bushman
The Times of London might once have been called the Thunderer and brought down governments – but now it is engaged in a war of
Magical, mysterious, white deer evoke a reaction wherever they are seen. The classic ‘white hart’ of British myth is an albino red stag or fallow
After cutting the wire on a game farm in Wiltshire and driving 5,000 pheasants to roost unprotected on the ground, where they are easy
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