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Cheshire huntsman and international show jumper cautioned for threatening League hunt monitor

14 June 2013
During a Cheshire Hounds Hunt on 12th February 2013 at Church Minshull in Cheshire, Keith Shore from Little Leigh, near Northwich, threateningly rode his horse at a 65 year old female volunteer monitor and attempted to rip a camera from around her neck, putting her in fear of severe injury.

League welcomes Baroness Smith of Basildon as Vice President of the Charity

13 June 2013
The League Against Cruel Sports has today announced the appointment of Angela Smith, The Right Honourable The Baroness Smith of Basildon, as a Vice President of the animal welfare charity.

Disappointment over Parliamentary vote on badger cull

UK
05 June 2013
The League Against Cruel Sports expresses disappointment at the narrow failure of the Parliamentary vote to oppose the badger cull, following today’s Opposition Day debate

We Will Brock You – Brian May to Address London March against the Badger Cull

London
30 May 2013
Queen legend Brian May will address a mass gathering of badgers – or at least humans in badger masks – on London’s streets on Saturday June 1st to protest against the imminent badger cull.

Charity Condemns Government Involvement in Clandestine Persecution of Protected Raptors

23 May 2013
The League Against Cruel Sports is dismayed by news that licences have been issued for the destruction of buzzards nests to protect pheasant shoots at undisclosed locations.

Britain continues to fund Spanish bullfighting to the tune of £13.5 million a year

17 May 2013
A report released this week revealed British taxpayers are indirectly subsidising the cruel practice of traditional bullfighting in Spain by £13.5 million a year, via European farm subsidies.

League calls for ban on cruel snaring

14 May 2013
Animal welfare charity launches manifesto and petition in campaign to end the use of snares

Hunt master and terrierman caught digging up a badger sett

07 May 2013
Two members of the Avon Vale Hunt were convicted today of offences under the Protection of Badgers Act. They were fined £300 and ordered to pay £250 costs.

Children exposed to bloodsports - the League's response

UK
30 April 2013
On Thursday 18th April 2013, League Against Cruel Sports investigators filmed the Quantock Staghounds chasing a young stag in Somerset. Filming from the League’s Baronsdown sanctuary, investigators captured hunt supporters on quad bikes and horseback riding after a stag chased out from its cover in woodlands.

League releases disturbing new stag hunting footage

19 April 2013
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