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Hunts across the country welcomed members of the armed services to meets on Saturday 26th January 2008, at which caps were donated to the Help for Heroes initiative.

Hunts across the country will be donating their caps from meets on Saturday 26th January 2008 to the Help for Heroes initiative. 

Help for Heroes is a charity run by country cartoonist and ex Green Jacket Bryn Parry, and is aiming to raise £8million in order to provide rehabilitation facilities for injured servicemen and women . Many serving and ex-servicemen and women hunt or support hunting and are keen to show their solidarity for a charity that is already making a huge difference to those injured whilst serving their country.

More information on meets is available from the Hunting Office .
 

Tony Wright, the first huntsman prosecuted under the Hunting Act, had his conviction overturned on appeal in Exeter Crown Court on Friday 30th November.
    
Mr. Wright, of the Exmoor Foxhounds, was found guilty in August 2006 at Barnstaple Magistrates Court, despite having used two hounds to flush foxes to be shot on 29th February 2005 as he believed was allowed by the Act. More people have been convicted of hunting rats under the Act than have been found guilty of illegal fox hunting. Read the judgment in full here . Post a message to Tony at http://www.foxhunters.net/exmoor/