The Hunting Act 2004 is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament. Its effect is to outlaw hunting with dogs - particularly for foxes, deer, hares and mink.
During the pre-legislation debate it was claimed by the country sports community that the Act would be devastating to rural economies as well as undermining centuries of agrarian cultural tradition.
Eight years on, however, it is apparent, even...
The government announced yesterday that it is to completely ban fox hunting for a six month period from next month in order to preserve the species.
Many people are currently under the illusion that the hunting of foxes is already outlawed within...
President Barrack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are due to arrive in London on Tuesday for a state visit that is to last three days. They are to stay as guests of Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Prince Philip, however, will be unava...
Suddenly it looks like the Urban Fox has turned the corner and become an acceptable fixture on the streets of London.
Enemy Number One from Hampstead Heath to Clapham Common is no longer the scavenging city fox. But that bird murdering, squirr...
Horrific Mutilation - Nobody could have escaped seeing the images of the horrific mutilation of two toddlers attacked by a fox while they slept in their cots in a North London house.
The Countryside Alliance, already protesting against the ban on...
Following recent fox attacks on sleeping babies, thousands of Londoners are making plans to trap those twerps who welcome the stinking creatures into their back-gardens - and either hound them out of town OR out of their filthy habit.
"Fox lovers...
Tally Ho! Fifty locals met this morning outside the Fox & Goose Public House in Islington, London to celebrate the start of the Urban Fox Hunting season.
Riding a mix of mountain bikes, buggies and invalid trolleys - and armed to the teet...
The latest hot news from the pre-election rag bag that is the, er, pre-election ragbag, is that it seems likely that the next government plans to legalise bunny hunting to replace the old-age sport (!) of fox hunting.
For those not in the know (I'...
With suggestions that secret plans are afoot to bring back fox hunting if the Tories get back into power it is imperative that we don't allow Cameron to win his race to the top seat at number 10.
Some political activists within Cameron's constitu...
Bored fox hunters, deprived of anything actually fun to do since important legislation deprived them of anything actually fun to do, are barmy for a new blood sport: reading The Mirror's Hunt for Maddy Forum.
A BOEING 747 was spotted chasing a fox through a field in Bellshill yesterday. One onlooker said the fox was running for his 'dear life' and barely made it out of the field alive.
The Government is hailing its anti-fox-hunting legislation as a complete success after as few 320,000 thousand hunt enthusiasts met on Boxing Day as usual.
The master of the Belfryshire's 'Yoiks Tally-ho Hunt', Major Burgundy Tulip, was up before Magistrates this morning charged with causing GBH, cruelty to animals, contrary to that bloody stupid and unenforceable new law the government brou...