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Prime Minister questioned on hunting Print E-mail
Thursday, 08 May 2008
Image Countryside Alliance Chief Executive Simon Hart explains the real reason hunting came up in the Commons last week: In last week's Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Labour MP Paddy Tipping chose to use a rare opportunity to question Gordon Brown to raise the issue of hunting. A few years ago the House of Commons rarely talked of anything else. These days, however, both the Government and backbench MPs who drove through the Act seem less than keen to mention their discredited legislation.
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The Cotley Hunt supports Help for Heroes Print E-mail
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Image Terry Crate tells us: Help for Heroes charity received over £2000 from the Cotley Hunt at their local meet last Saturday. Forming part of a national campaign hunts across Britain hunts met to show their support for the Help for Heroes campaign by asking their members to donate the cap taken at their meets to the Help for Heroes campaign.

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David Cameron on the "idiotic" hunting law Print E-mail
Tuesday, 19 February 2008

Mr Cameron is in favour of scrapping the Act Conservative Party Leader David Cameron gave an interview to Welsh newspaper, the Western Mail, published on 19th February 2008. On hunting, Mr Cameron told the paper: "We have a very clear position on this, there will be a free vote, and if there is a vote to repeal the hunting ban there will be a government Bill in government time. It’s quite clear it isn’t working, there are more people hunting than ever before. The law is being made to look an idiot, and that isn’t a good situation to be in.” Read the piece in full here .

Meanwhile, on the same day, the Western Daily Press newspaper published an editorial giving the Act the same treatment. Read on for the paper's view of the legislation....

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Three years of the Hunting Act Print E-mail
Thursday, 14 February 2008

The Brocklesby Chief Executive Simon Hart marks the third anniversary of the Hunting Act coming into force by issuing a clear message that the Act is into injury time. Read on for his thoughts or watch him talk about about the Act in this short clip. Please follow this link to view the news clip. (Please note that this will open Windows Media Player or equivalent on your PC and you will have to confirm that you want to launch the application and view the clip.)
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Hunts raise thousands for our heroes Print E-mail
Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Private Fuseini from Ghana collects for wounded colleagues 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.

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Hunting for Heroes Print E-mail
Wednesday, 23 January 2008

Image 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 .
 
 
Alun Michael's delusion on hunting continues Print E-mail
Monday, 21 January 2008
Image In a January 2008 issue of political magazine The House Alun Michael MP, the DEFRA Minister responsible for the Hunting Act fiasco four years ago, wrote a piece entitled "Call off the dogs". He said "the hunting lobby should cease its misinformation campaign" and insisted "it is now clear that the Act is straightforward and enforceable." Read the piece here

As a counter-point Jim Barrington of the All Party Parliamentary Middle Way Group and former Executive Director of the League Against Cruel Sports wrote that "legislation should always start from a position of principle" and argued that "acting from incorrect motives has yielded a counter-productive hunting ban." Read Jim's piece, "Barking up the wrong tree," here .
 
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