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HORROR AS FLEEING HUNTED STAG COLLIDES WITH CAR CARRYING WOMAN AND CHILD
On the 12th of October the Quantock Staghounds met in West Bagborough, an area which falls within the constituency of Liberal Democrats MP Rachel Gilmour. Rachel has recently spoken publicly about her support for “trail” hunting, presenting what is a grim and violent reality as something that reads like a

Smokescreen Saturday Exposed: Chris Packham Blasts The Quorn Hunt Over Sickening Fox Cruelty That Blows Apart Trail Hunting’s Biggest Lie
When we showed wildlife campaigner Chris Packham the sickening footage of the Quorn Hunt, his response was damning: “Another bloody year, another bloodied body, another animal tortured and torn to pieces to gratify the bloodlust of savages. Where is the damned consultation and where is the damned ban?” The footage

All Warning, No Action?
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,

A LOT HAS HAPPENED IN A SHORT SPACE OF TIME
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

Newcomers to Trail Hunting Week: A Very Awkward Recruitment Drive.
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

David Cameron Defends Trail Hunting: Four Days Later The Heythrop Kill A Fox
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 –

The Law Catches up with the Lauderdale: Huntswoman Convicted of Illegal Fox Hunting
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

The Rural Connections Behind Illegal Hunting
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

Lessons in Hare Hunting: Inside Britain’s School Beagle Packs
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

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Yesterday, two Quantock Staghound hunters were up in court over the killing of this stag, with one of them facing a further charge.
This happened in Rachel Gilmour MP’s constituency of Tiverton & Minehead.
Gilmour recently wrote in defence of trail hunting in Hounds
🚨 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚. 𝗡𝗢 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡?
Dangerous behaviour on public roads, intimidation and antisocial behaviour, illegal hunting, violence and thuggery. How much more will hunts be allowed to get away with?
Police have recently issued several Community Protection
🚨𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗢𝗖𝗞 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗦𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗢 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟🚨
Quantock Staghounds hunt master Chris Gibbons (top in the image below) and huntsman Martin Watts (bottom) appeared at Taunton Magistrates' Court today (22nd October), charged
🚨𝗤𝗨𝗢𝗥𝗡 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧: 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗦?
✅ Sponsorship withdrawn
✅ Police investigation
✅ Press coverage
And where is hunting's supposed governing body? ❌
The British Hound Sports Association (BHSA) rose from the ashes of the disgraced Hunting Office
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