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Christina on
14 November, 2010 : 09:00
The Fifth Annual Wildlife Day held in October and hosted by the League Against Cruel Sports was a great success. Everyone enjoyed the day as it was filled with interesting and varied things to see and...
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Christina on
13 November, 2010 : 09:00
Our thanks go to one of our supporters for sending in an old copy of the Daily Mirror which features an article on it's front page about the League.
This story is a perfect example of how it is po...
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on
12 November, 2010 : 10:59
The debate about the death of the Exmoor Emperor rumbles on. Was the stag actually killed, was he the biggest in the country? Rumours abound and some suspect that the whole thing was a publicity stunt...
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on
12 November, 2010 : 00:01
This week's video blog includes the story of menswear retailer 'The Officers Club' using a bull terrier to promote their clothing, a visit to the SDLP Conference in Belfast, and a debate on hunting ...
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Christina on
11 November, 2010 : 15:00
Red Deer populations have hit their lowest number in a decade according to the official count undertaken by the Quantock Deer Management and Conservation Group.
The results were published in the Qua...
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on
11 November, 2010 : 14:20
Every year the gates of Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison, open to the public for an increasingly popular rodeo show.
But this is no ordinary rodeo. The participants are in...
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on
11 November, 2010 : 08:31
Forgive me if this sounds like something from the guest publication segment on Have I Got News for You, but an interesting article appeared in the November 3rd edition of Clerks and Councils Direct.
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on
10 November, 2010 : 12:00
The League is kicking off a new campaign to promote cool sports over cruel sports with the sponsorship of Leeds United Ladies Football club.
The lucrative deal, which was donated to the League b...
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on
10 November, 2010 : 10:30
Last week a MP close to the campaign for a repeal of the Hunting Act admitted that they do not have enough MPs to win such a vote. They did say, however that “A list has been drawn up of people though...
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Christina on
09 November, 2010 : 16:00
A DEFRA study which investigates the compliance of shooters to the Environmental Protection Regulations (1999) has revealed that a staggering 70% of shot ducks are illegally shot with lead ammunition....
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on
08 November, 2010 : 16:05
Last week’s television programme Making Scotland’s Landscape provided a fascinating account of the history of Britain’s shooting industry; and it didn’t pull any punches.
Following the invention o...
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on
06 November, 2010 : 08:16
The League's chairman, John Cooper QC, is today providing a live twitter feed from the annual conference of the Bar Council, being held in London today.
Mr Cooper, who writes for The Times and othe...
Written by
on
05 November, 2010 : 10:11
There comes a time when certain beliefs become an established fact as opposed to being just an opinion. The long debate on the hunting of wild mammals has reached that tipping point, where the ban on ...
Written by
on
05 November, 2010 : 09:30
The Environment Minister's attempts to defend the Scottish Government's snaring policy in Holyrood this week certainly made for interesting listening. Roseanna Cunningham was giving oral evidence to t...
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on
05 November, 2010 : 00:01
Louise reports from the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Oban, where we met politicians including Ed Miliband and Iain Gray. We lobbied on our snaring campaign, and launched our manifesto for the S...
Written by
on
03 November, 2010 : 12:00
Following the publication of our responses from MPs that showed there are a majority who would vote against a repeal of the Hunting Act, I have been interested to see the reaction from the Countryside...
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on
02 November, 2010 : 16:30
The UN Biodiversity meeting in Japan concluded this weekend with a new 10 year plan completed and conservation targets set. This major agreement comes at a significant moment as the UN declared “Inte...
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on
02 November, 2010 : 15:30
Despite considerable pressure from the League, luggage company Samsonite is still refusing to pull the plug on a new advert which glorifies bullfighting. The advert mimics a bullfight, replacing the t...
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on
01 November, 2010 : 11:00
It’s November so it must be hunting season again...aniseed hunting season of course. The Monday after the ‘big opening weekend’ usually brings a larger share of press articles to scrutinise for campai...
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on
29 October, 2010 : 15:20
Well its finally come to this! Gone are the marches for liberty and the signature heavy commitment to civil disobedience of the Hunting Declaration, instead the Socratic wonder that is the Countryside...
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on
29 October, 2010 : 09:15
In this week's video blog, Sarah talks about our work surrounding the shooting of the 'Exmoor Emperor', the start of the hunting season and our Hunt Crimewatch service, and our campaign to get Sam...
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on
29 October, 2010 : 01:00
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
I suppose that the hunters must feel more than a little beleaguered these days. Week by week the storm clouds gather over their party games i...
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Katy on
28 October, 2010 : 15:00
The European Union has proposed a five-year ban on cloning farm animals and livestock. However the cloning of all sorts of other animals, including racehorses and fighting bulls, remains legal. The pr...
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on
28 October, 2010 : 11:00
Britain's largest wild animal has been killed by a trophy hunter, at 9 feet tall and 24 stone, this celebrated creature was killed precisely because of his size and majesty. A hunting enthusiast on a...
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on
27 October, 2010 : 15:00
Reading through a recent paper on injuries sustained by working dogs I am struck by the high levels and varied injuries sustained by working dogs. Currently the debate in Northern Ireland is focused o...
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on
26 October, 2010 : 15:40
As part of a new bill nearly all animals in Israel could be afforded protected species status, instead of just certain animals. If the bill is successful, hunting would only be permissible in rare ins...
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Christina on
25 October, 2010 : 12:00
Yet another badger has suffered a painful and lingering death after being caught by a snare on the Isle of Wight.
The badger was found by a local farmer who took the injured animal straight to the v...
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on
25 October, 2010 : 11:10
I don’t know about the rest of the country but in the South East it was bloody chilly this morning! With the frost came the familiar ritual of leaving an extra five minutes to thaw the car in ad...
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Christina on
24 October, 2010 : 09:00
The Isle of Wight’s regional group are going to be extremely busy in the next few days trying to get everything ready for their fifth annual wildlife day. With speakers including Dave Williams, Chairm...
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on
22 October, 2010 : 10:00
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
There is widespread recognition that we live in a world of finite resources that come under increasing pressure as the world’s population g...
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on
22 October, 2010 : 00:10
A 20,000 signature petition against snaring, our purchase of 50 acres of Somerset woodland, and the Scottish National Party Conference all feature in this week's video blog, presented by Christina...
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on
21 October, 2010 : 16:30
In response to the rather nauseating self-promotion by BASC in today’s quite obviously paid-for article in the Country Living supplement of the Belfast Telegraph, I take issue with BASC's regressive s...
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on
21 October, 2010 : 15:15
The Spanish Partido Popular (Popular Party) has announced that it is going to challenge the ban on bullfighting passed last July in the Catalan Parliament in the Constitutional Court.
A spokesman cla...
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on
20 October, 2010 : 17:00
Latest reports of wildlife crime and animal cruelty cases in Northern Ireland.
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on
19 October, 2010 : 16:40
The recent stag hunting ban in Ireland appears to have tipped some hunters over the edge. Rather than making the simple conversion to drag or trail hunting, the Ward Union Hunt has instead proposed a ...
Written by
on
19 October, 2010 : 10:50
Unless you’ve spent the last few months trapped down a mine, you’ve probably heard that Tony Blair has published his first (and hopefully last) set of memoirs. The nauseatingly-titled A Journey contai...
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on
18 October, 2010 : 16:00
This week’s edition of the Shooting Times & Country Magazine again shows evidence of one-sided journalism. If they had actually asked us for what really happened at the conference, they would have...
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on
18 October, 2010 : 11:15
A great story to start the week brings news that, according to the Environment Agency, the otter has made a remarkable comeback from the brink of extinction. It would be difficult to imagine anyone gr...
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on
15 October, 2010 : 10:00
This week's blog from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive
I have just been reading Lord Ashcroft’s analysis of the last election. As you might expect his general approach is very businesslike insofa...
Written by
on
14 October, 2010 : 00:10
Regular followers of our blog will recall how, eight weeks ago, a flurry of activity on Facebook included the creation of the 'League Against the League Against Cruel Sports'. Interest in their group ...
Written by
on
12 October, 2010 : 15:35
Following pressure from the League and other animal welfare organisations, international airline Jet Airways has apologised for its glorification of bullfighting in its in-flight magazine JetWings, an...
Written by
on
11 October, 2010 : 10:00
We’ve received some great news from Tenby, West Wales, where local councillors have voted to ban the South Pembrokeshire Hunt from the town centre.
The hunt had written to the town council to ask ...
Written by
on
08 October, 2010 : 08:31
The League's Parliamentary & Political Officer, Joshua Kaile, reports from the Conservative Conference in Manchester.
...
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on
08 October, 2010 : 07:33
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
One of the big issues in the whole big society debate is, ‘what is the role of governments, both central and local, and what is more proper...
Written by
on
07 October, 2010 : 14:00
Now that we’re back home in Godalming and recovering from the exhausting few weeks of party conferences, we can report on which MPs visited us and signed a pledge to support the Hunting Act.
Remember...
Written by
on
06 October, 2010 : 12:20
Regulars to this blog may recall an earlier entry celebrating the conviction of Alastair Robinson, a terrierman with the Ullswater Foxhounds, thanks in large part to evidence obtained by League observ...
Written by
on
06 October, 2010 : 05:12
We were delighted to welcome Caroline Spelman to our stand yesterday afternoon.
The Defra Secretary of State has long and consistently said that she would vote for repeal of the Hunting Act. But ju...
Written by
on
05 October, 2010 : 18:30
Earlier today, Jim Barrington (ex of the League, now employed by the Countryside Alliance, Middle Way Group, Council of Hunting Associations and the Masters of Fox Hounds Association) indicated that h...
Written by
on
05 October, 2010 : 10:00
It’s that time of year again when the cottage industry-cum-pressure group calling itself Friends of the National Trust (FONT) produces a list of candidates it is recommending for election to the Natio...
Written by
on
05 October, 2010 : 08:00
There's an interesting debate in the House of Lords this afternoon. Lord Taylor of Holbeach has instigated a debate on 'the role of the charitable sector in strengthening civil society'.
We hope th...