Parent pressure forces school to abandon plans to take children on fox hunt

A HUNTINGDONSHIRE primary school is at the centre of another controversy just three months after taking youngsters on a trip to see a duck shoot. Just three months after taking pupils to watch wildfowling – including a duck being shot – Ashbeach School, in Ramsey St Mary’s had planned to take Year 6 children, aged [...]

Boy watches in horror as hounds chase pet in Petworth

A mother and her nine-year-old son watched helplessly as a pack of hounds chased their pet terrier around a lake in Petworth Park on Sunday. Mya, a three-year-old Lakeland terrier, fled in terror as mink hounds from the Wealden pack, on exercise in the park, pursued her until in panic she leapt into the water [...]

Fox hunt investigation abandoned amid row between campaigners and CPS

Animal charity criticises prosecutors for letter claiming Dorset hunt was ‘media savvy’ and would use specialist lawyers Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 21 February 2012 An investigation into a Dorset hunt has been abandoned amid a row between animal welfare monitors and the Crown Prosecution Service over the text of a letter explaining [...]

Save the Windermere Geese

The Lake District National Park Authority (LDNPA) has decided to shoot 200 Canada geese during the nesting season. Its reasons are thoroughly unconvincing. There has been a significant public outcry but we need your help to save these geese. For detailed information, please read the Animal Aid fact sheet (an abbreviated version can be found [...]

Two demos to help stop the Windermere Geese from being culled

You will, no doubt, have heard about plans to shoot 200 Canada geese at Lake Windermere this spring. Animal Aid has joined with local campaigners to try to stop this senseless and unethical cull. This Friday – 24th February – campaigners will be handing in a petition to the Lake District National Park Authority at [...]

Group news Sept – Dec 2011

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