Government could ban all working dogs – Fieldsports News, 29 April 2026
29 April 2026
Here are the links: Proposed trail hunting ban – Countryside Alliance Northern Ireland faces bid to ban foxhunting – BBC Northern Ireland gun licensing fee
Animal welfare consultant Jim Barrington goes on a tour of hare poaching victims in the Eastern Counties of England. With poachers damaging crops and farm equipment, it is up to gamekeepers to defend the land. Tony Blair’s 2004 ban on coursing was meant to have stopped this. Jim meets gamekeepers Geoff Garrod and Ed Coles and hears first hand how Blair’s ban has failed.
Click here for Ed Coles’ petition to increase poaching sentences
Here are the links: Proposed trail hunting ban – Countryside Alliance Northern Ireland faces bid to ban foxhunting – BBC Northern Ireland gun licensing fee
The CIC general assembly in Vienna, 2026, is a talking shop for the world’s hunters. Plus it included a service in St Stephen’s Cathedral, by
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IplcitP8yoo This week it’s bring-your-kids-to-work day, so David’s son Hector is on the Fieldsports Channel news stump. Here are the links: BBC parrots anti-shooting propaganda
West Mercia Police has made up its own rules restricting Section 1 shotguns – that is shotguns with a magazine capacity greater than two cartridges,
Here are the links: SNP blew £135m on failed deer cull – TheFerret.scot RSPB advice could kill garden birds – RSPB Country people make the
Here are the links: Starmer splashes £90m on birdwatching groups – Gov.uk Perthshire farmer hands out two tonnes of free venison – Fairfeast.co.uk Rat up
Here are the links: Starmer lashes out at trail hunters – Countryside Alliance and Gov.uk Antis fear Starmer will allow most hunting with hounds – The
Here are the links: Labour’s shooting ban bonanza – Gov.uk, DEFRA and Gov.uk Cops chase poacher vehicle – Facebook Nature.scot gannet hunt protest – Daily Record Phil
A farmer tells dog walkers to get back on the footpath – and ends up in a cell for eight hours, while police grab his
Here are the links: Government hands out deer chiller cash – BASC DEFRA uses bird flu as stick to beat shoots – NGO Welsh Labour
Firearms licensing delays don’t just frustrate shooters, they hurt the sport and businesses like shops and grounds. We visit Sporting Targets in Bedfordshire – one
Here are the links: Lloyds Bank freezes shooter’s accounts – Lloyds Bank Starmer’s lead ban timetable – BASC Scottish sporting rates climbdown – Countryside Alliance