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21 June, 2010 : 16:30
Here are the headlines:
- "Mystery of fox that savaged girl in her bed"
- "'Fox' savaged girl"
- "Wild fox mauls girl in her bed"
- "Fox attacks girl in her bed"
- "Fox mauled my todd...
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18 June, 2010 : 15:54
Next month, the annual Calgary Stampede rodeo event will be taking place in Alberta, Canada. But behind the mythology of the “old west” lies an industry of shameful animal abuse.
Rodeos have been ba...
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18 June, 2010 : 15:10
The Countryside Alliance have always been a dab-hand at telling half-truths and at massaging the reality to suit their propaganda, but this week seems to have been a bumper massage week for the townie...
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18 June, 2010 : 13:02
Our work to establish the position of MPs on repeal of the Hunting Act continues daily, and today we're publishing the latest full lists of MPs and their position, where known.
- Download the fu...
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18 June, 2010 : 11:02
The Countryman's Weekly is a weekly pro-hunt, pro-shoot, pro-cull - in fact simply pro-war on wildlife - magazine for the bloodsports industry. They quite often publish the one-sided rantings of peopl...
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18 June, 2010 : 09:55
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
The Koupparis twins in Hackney were clearly severely injured in the attack that they suffered, and any parent or other person would feel sy...
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16 June, 2010 : 09:44
Further to our blog post a week ago, we are delighted to report that the Conservative Party have accepted our application for an exhibition stand at this year's Conference in Birmingham in October.
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16 June, 2010 : 09:09
It's a while since we've published an update on the number of MPs who say they would vote each way on repeal of the Hunting Act. The current figures are correct as at 0900 today.
286 would vote...
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16 June, 2010 : 08:16
The Advertising Standards Authority have published their adjudication on Lush, the high street cosmetics company, following complaints over their anti-hunting campaign last year.
Lush - with a long...
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15 June, 2010 : 08:11
The most recent edition of the pro-hunting Horse & Hound magazine contains an interview with Andrew Osborne, joint master and huntsman of the Bedale Hunt which demonstrates beautifully how much hu...
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13 June, 2010 : 11:40
The League has an extensive intelligence gathering procedure to enable us to accurately identify individuals in the hunting field. The procedures take various forms, and yesterday we attended the Roya...
Written by
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11 June, 2010 : 15:21
It seems many weeks since I was standing in the queue in my local shop one evening and took a press call from a journalist informing me of a fox having attacked two children in London. In fact, it was...
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11 June, 2010 : 10:00
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
The process of government can throw up some quite fascinating results. This week was a good example. In opposition, shadow DEFRA Minister Jam...
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10 June, 2010 : 16:38
The Portsmouth MP, Mike Hancock, has tabled a parliamentary Early Day Motion (EDM) calling attention to the 170 racehorses that die each year as a result of injuries sustained during races.
The EDM...
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10 June, 2010 : 14:08
Colleagues from the 'Animals in Distress' charity in Spain alerted us to this awful story.
Drunken youngsters on the last day of the village fair in Alhaurín el Grande have been accused of beating ...
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10 June, 2010 : 09:16
It hasn't been the best week for our wildlife.
Some people might think that the badger cull isn't in the League's remit. It's not a cruel sport, after all. But the League has a moral obligation to ...
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10 June, 2010 : 00:00
We were appalled to read that trophy hunting companies are trying to ‘cash in’ on the World Cup. An investigation by The Sun reveals that companies are promoting special deals in which football fans c...
Written by
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09 June, 2010 : 09:00
We're well into that time of year when we're planning our attendance at the three main party conferences which take place in September and October.
First we'll head to the Liberal Democrat event in...
Written by
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08 June, 2010 : 16:55
When we moved offices from London to Surrey, we put a lot of paperwork in archive and sent it down to Somerset. We're gradually going through all this 'stuff' and deciding what to keep, and what to th...
Written by
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08 June, 2010 : 09:30
The publication of our annual Hunting Report last month generated some good local and regional coverage for the League's work, not least in the West Country where both the Western Morning News (WMN) a...
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08 June, 2010 : 08:07
Our Chief Executive yesterday attended a meeting of Defra's Gamebird Working Group, of which we have been a member for some time. Over the last couple of years the Group has been instrumental in the d...
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07 June, 2010 : 10:15
This beautiful image of a red deer calf taking its first tentative steps into the world was taken on our Baronsdown Sanctuary on Saturday. It's safe on our Sanctuaries, but it's hard to understand why...
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07 June, 2010 : 09:08
The most recent edition of the 'lads mag' NUTS includes a feature on the goring of matador Julio Aparicio on which we commented two weeks ago. The article - while saying that "it couldn't have happene...
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06 June, 2010 : 21:01
News sources are this evening reporting an apparent attack on twin babies at a house in Stoke Newington, London, last night. The fox apparently entered the house through a window or door left open for...
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06 June, 2010 : 19:44
Our colleagues at Greyt Exploitations have emailed asking for help with their campaign against Zig Zag Kennels in Lincolnshire, and there are a number of ways in which people can help. Here's their em...
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06 June, 2010 : 11:22
Today's Observer newspaper includes a lengthy piece on bullfighting. It's an excellent and comprehensive summary of the current position. Here we reproduce the first few paragraphs; whilst the full ar...
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06 June, 2010 : 11:00
From Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive
Our thoughts and condolences go to the families and friends of the victims of this awful tragedy. To have seen loved ones, friends and acquaintances or stran...
Written by
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05 June, 2010 : 00:01
Repeal of the Hunting Act came up as an issue on last night's edition of 'Any Questions' on BBC Radio 4. The six minute debate gave the pro-bloodsport panelists (of which there were three) a good oppo...
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04 June, 2010 : 15:00
Last week we told you of the mugs we’ve sent to all MPs. We have a limited supply available to supporters on a first come, first served basis in return for a donation of £10 per mug to help toward...
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04 June, 2010 : 10:00
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive
I once asked someone what was the most difficult part of his job was, and his answer I remember to this day. What he said was, that the bigg...
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03 June, 2010 : 23:00
The League is saddened to hear about the death of Leonardo, Namibia’s last male desert lion, at the hands of trophy hunter Keith Wright. The desert lion is an endangered species, which has adapted to ...
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03 June, 2010 : 11:00
We blogged last week on how Defra's Code of Practice on the Rearing of Gamebirds for Sporting Purposes was back in limbo after a ministerial decision to call a meeting of stakeholders.
Well, that m...
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03 June, 2010 : 09:00
The terrible human tragedy that unfolded yesterday in Cumbria will no doubt lead to some pontification and examination of our legislation on gun ownership.
Legislation based on knee-jerk reactions ...
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29 May, 2010 : 11:00
Today marks the start of National Shooting Week, an "increasingly popular initiative to introduce people to one of the most exciting sports in the world". The week is organised by the Countryside Alli...
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28 May, 2010 : 12:00
In a quite astonishing post on the Twitter website, the Countryside Alliance's press officer appears to admit that two-thirds of hunts are breaking the law.
In response to the publication this morn...
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28 May, 2010 : 11:00
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
The Countryside Alliance seems more desperate by the minute. Rather than address the issues, in a recent blog post they resort to attacking...
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27 May, 2010 : 17:00
The hunting issue raised its head in the Commons within the last hour, when Hilary Benn, shadow secretary of state, noted that a number of members of the new government were anti-hunting.
Hilary ha...
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27 May, 2010 : 00:00
A letter arrived by email yesterday evening which ended a mounting suspicion that the new government might try to ditch the Defra Code of Conduct on the Welfare of Gamebirds reared for Sporting Purpos...
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26 May, 2010 : 08:00
On Friday we will be publishing our annual Hunting Report. This focuses on the 2009-2010 hunting season which ended a few weeks ago.
We did plan to publish today, but have good reason to delay by t...
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24 May, 2010 : 10:00
Over the last few days, colleagues in our campaigns team have been calling those MPs whose position remained 'unknown' on our database. This has had a pretty dramatic impact and, as of this morning, t...
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22 May, 2010 : 10:00
A number of our blog readers have contacted us to ask why they can't comment on blog posts in the way they could on our old WordPress blog.
Well, there's no reason, and we're just waiting for our w...
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21 May, 2010 : 17:00
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive
It is hard coping with the sort of fear uncertainty and doubt that goes with the recent changes in the political landscape. Will they or won...
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20 May, 2010 : 14:00
Last weekend, one of our campaigners represented the League at the fourth World Anti-Bullfighting Summit in Barcelona.
The latest international conference was attended by over seventy representatives...
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19 May, 2010 : 09:00
This morning's Daily Telegraph reports that the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition have agreed to a way forward on the Conservative manifesto pledge to hold a free vote on repeal of the Hunti...
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18 May, 2010 : 09:00
This morning we have published our latest data on how Members of the new House of Commons stand on repeal of the Hunting Act.
The database - which can be downloaded from our website - shows that of...
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14 May, 2010 : 14:00
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
The question on most people’s minds who are reading this will be what next on the hunting front following the formation of a Conservative ...
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14 May, 2010 : 09:00
The League follows a large number of people and organisations with a rural interest via the social networking website, Twitter.
This morning, we tried to follow Sheryll Murray, the new Conservative...
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11 May, 2010 : 15:00
Five members of the League's campaigns team worked through the night on Thursday to monitor election results as they came in.
We've now crunched the numbers and produced a briefing note which ...
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11 May, 2010 : 02:00
Our Chief Executive and Head of Campaigns are in Westminster for the League's first meeting with an MP in the new parliament.
The ongoing state of flux make Westminster an even more interesting pla...
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01 January, 2010 : 12:00
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