Chris Packham Slams Cruel Lake District Fox Hunt!

As more hunts receive police warnings and notices, are they a route to meaningful action, or a substitute for it? Many of you cannot have failed to notice that we are writing more and more about hunts being issued with Community Protection Warnings (CPWs) and, occasionally, the CPW’s big sister,

It’s hard to believe that it was only the 23rd of September that we published an article with updates of what had happened during the hunting season so far, when so much has happened since then. Below we take a look at what has happened in the last few weeks

After last year’s embarrassing Farcical Friday, the pro-blood sports lobby group, the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA), has somehow managed to surpass itself in the ridiculousness stakes – and it’s not even Smokescreen Saturday yet! By now, you might have thought the hunting fraternity would have learned to exercise a

On 14 September 2026, former Prime Minister David Cameron joined the Countryside Alliance in another performance of defending so-called trail hunting at an event in Westminster. Four days later, on 18 September, the Heythrop Hunt – a hunt Cameron has ridden with and was seen attending earlier this year –

Claire Bellamy, 51, veteran huntswoman for the Lauderdale Hunt, became the first fox hunter convicted under Scotland’s new hunting laws, following a case in which footage captured by Glasgow Hunt Saboteurs exposed illegal hunting taking place beyond the boundaries of licensed operation. On Monday, 5 October 2026, Bellamy, the former

Thanks to Wiltshire Hunt Sabs for this guest post, who, alongside Cirencester Illegal Hunt Watch, Bristol Hunt Sabs and Bath Hunt Sabs, have been keeping the pressure on the Beaufort Hunt. The Duke of Beaufort’s Hunt is one of Britain’s most prominent fox hunts and has been terrorising wildlife across

The private schools schooling children in a masterclass of wildlife criminality. Recently we revealed the full footage of the Stowe School Beagles during what school headteacher, Dr Anthony Wallersteiner, describes as a “huge variety of activities” available to pupils, including “field games…beagling”. The school’s Games Coach, Phillip Kennedy, was in

Eggesford Hunt huntsman Jason Marles has been convicted of illegally hunting a fox with hounds following an incident captured on drone footage during the hunt’s Boxing Day meet in December 2025. Marles, 44, pleaded guilty to hunting a wild mammal with dogs at Pudson Farm, near Okehampton, when he appeared

Three people associated with the Mendip Farmers Hunt have pleaded not guilty to hunting a wild mammal with dogs. Emma Clothier, Charlie Thomas and Bill Payne appeared at Taunton Deane Magistrates’ Court on 15 September 2026. All three pleaded not guilty and are due to face trial on 15 September