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Just days after a seven year girl tragically died after the quad bike she was driving hit a Range Rover, pro-hunt fanatic Nicholas Soames MP is filmed driving a quad bike on a road overloaded with children and adults supporting the notorious Crawley and Horsham hunt.

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A Hunt terrier-man given an £80 fixed penalty by Sussex police for abusive behaviour. Jeremy Charman, a hunt terrier-man of the notorious Crawley and Horsham hunt based in Sussex was handed the fine by police after throwing a dead rabbit at hunt monitors in November 2007. More... Story from diggingout.org

As a goodwill gesture we have removed the story and video of a Countryside Alliance supporter targetting an IFAW staff member. We have also halted work on a website revealing the truth behind the site. We will be monitoring the situation though. Seasonal Greetings!

The man behind an extremist pro-hunt website has been exposed as Andrew William Leaver who according to the Countryside Alliance is 'the MD and co-founder of Leaver Evans Ltd'. Mr Leaver was exposed after he received a formal police caution after taking photographs in a court building and putting one up on his website; taking photos or video "within the precincts of a court" is a serious offence and is arrestable without warrent. Leaver even registered his extremist pro-hunt website in the name of 'Leaver Evans'. More...

A paparazzi photographer has told a court he and a colleague were stuck on a road for hours when Otis Ferry snatched their car's ignition keys. Charles Pycraft and Ben Brett were trailing actress Sienna Miller in February when the incident happened, West London Magistrates' Court heard. Mr Pycraft said Mr Ferry, 25, of Cross Houses, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, snatched and then discarded the keys.

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Pro-hunting campaigner Otis Ferry has been arrested after an incident in which two women claim they were attacked. Ferry, 25 - son of Roxy Music singer Bryan - was riding with the Heythrop Hunt in Tory leader David Cameron's constituency when he allegedly confronted two women in a car who were monitoring the hunt. Afterwards both women saw a doctor. And they claimed that their video camera and satellite navigation system had been stolen. More...

Police have issued a warning to Christopher Curtis, a 'hunt steward' with the Crawley and Horsham Hunt after harassing a hunt monitor.
Sergeant Philip of Sussex police stated: "I am of the opinion having viewed the footage that you were subject to harassment by way of Mr Curtis blocking you from carrying out lawful activity, in this case filming, in a public place. I have personally issued a harassment warning to him of which he has accepted." More...

Richard Down and Adrian Pillivant, both members of the Quantock Staghounds, have lost their appeal against their conviction for breaking the law prohibiting hunting.

Down, 44, and Pillivant, 36, were convicted by magistrates in June after League Against Cruel Sports campaigners filmed two hounds as they chased deer across Exmoor a year after the Hunting Act made hunting with hounds illegal.

Violent huntsmen who attacked elderly protesters helped propel Tory leader David Cameron to power, the Daily Mirror can reveal.

Members of the Heythrop Hunt have been captured on video roughing up demonstrators and damaging their cars. But they helped Mr Cameron get elected as an MP in 2001 by canvassing votes for him. Leaked documents reveal the sickening violence behind this hunt. More...

A jury at Brighton Crown Court has found John Hawkins, 69, a supporter of the Crawley and Horsham Hunt, guilty of Grievous Bodily Harm after an unprovoked attack that broke the arm of a female anti-hunt campaigner.

Hawkins, who runs a private slaughter house at Singers Farm, Cowfold, will be sentenced on November 8th. He is the latest in a long line of convictions for members and supporters of the Crawley and Horsham hunt. More...

Three huntsmen of the Minehead Harriers, accused by the League against Cruel Sports of hunting illegally, will be tried under the Hunting Act. William Goffe of Wootton Courteney, Somerset and Gary Bradley, of Timberscombe, Somerset, both denied the charge. Bradley denied a further public order offence and was given bail. A plea of not guilty was also entered for Sidney Westcott of Bossington, Somerset, who was not present at court. The case has been adjourned until Monday November 12, when a trial date will be set.

Bloodsport fanatics are using the Facebook website to threaten opponents of the hunting ban. One wrote on the networking forum: "It really needs a bunch of 'anti antis' to go around and control/handle the scum. Hunting folk need to be more willing to give them some of their own medicine." More...

CELEBRITY chef Clarissa Dickson Wright and sporting baronet Sir Mark Prescott are to face private prosecution for allegedly hunting hares with dogs in North Yorkshire.

Details of the case emerged yesterday following a separate hearing at Scarborough Magistrates' Court involving five other defendants – including Yorkshire's former champion racehorse trainer Peter Easterby. More...

William Francis Armstrong, 69, the terrierman for the Flint and Denbigh Hunt in North Wales has been fined after admitting hunting a wild animal with a dog after he was seen putting a terrier into a hole.

Armstrong from near St Asaph, Denbighshire, also failed to give the fox a chance to escape before he shot it illegally with a .22 pistol rather than a shotgun. More...

The League Against Cruel Sports second private prosecution for illegal hunting has been successful! Richard Down and Adrian Pillivant, officials from the Quantock Staghounds, have been found guilty of illegal hunting in Bristol. Fines of £500 each plus cost of £1,000, and the Judge said: 'The Act is clear' - what they were doing was: 'sport and recreation', so obviously illegal. More...

Bryan Ferry, Countryside Alliance supporter and father of drink drive Otis Ferry, has praised the marketing and presentation skills of the Nazi regime. "My God, the Nazis knew how to put themselves in the limelight and present themselves," he gushed to the German magazine Welt am Sonntag. "I'm talking about Leni Riefenstahl's movies and Albert Speer's buildings and the mass parades and the flags - just amazing. Really beautiful."

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A HUNT supporter subjected a grandmother to a torrent of verbal abuse and caused several hundred pounds worth of damage to her car in a bid to stop her monitoring the Vale of the White Horse Hunt. More...

Hunt leaders have urged their supporters to pretend they are being harassed or assaulted by anti-hunt monitors in a bid to sabotage video evidence. The West's director of the Countryside Alliance, Alison Hawes, said the astonishing tip came from a police officer, who advised the best way to scupper any video evidence taken by monitors was to make up stories about being abused by those doing the filming. Last night, anti-hunt campaigners accused the Alliance of encouraging supporters to mislead the courts and the police. (February 2007) More...

A huntsman with the Dulverton Farmers has been found guilty of assault against a 66 year old female League Hunt monitor. Anthony Allibone, who has 30 years experience riding horses, claimed he lost control of his horse but magistrates at Minehead found him guilty of assault by putting the victim in fear of immediate and unlawful violence. He was ordered to pay £100 compensation to Ms Nicola. He was also fined £100 and ordered to pay £200 in costs. More...

Otis Ferry spent the night in a police cell after an evening at a BAFTAs after-show party. Ferry was cautioned by police after on Sunday night (11th February 2007) after throwing a photographer's keys into the gutter outside London nightspot Boujis, which he was leaving with actress pal Sienna Miller. Miller has been romantically linked to Otis' brother Isaac (nothing like keeping it in the family eh Otis?) In January Otis Ferry escaped a driving ban despite admitting drink driving.

A woman hunt supporter has been given a police caution after trying to puncture a tyre on a hunt monitor's car with a nail hidden in a Mars bar. The bizarre attack took place in the Cotswolds as the Heythrop Hunt was riding on the Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire border in January 2007. The Heythrop is the favourite of Tory leader David Cameron, although he was not with the hunt at the time. More...

The Crawley and Horsham hunt's bird of prey man has admitted assaulting a female hunt moniter on 18th November 2006 and received a formal police caution. The incident took place at Middle Wood, Trawlers Farm, Southwater, West Sussex. More...

FOX hunting buffoon Otis Ferry got off a drink drive ban claiming he did not know his mates had plied him with treble vodkas. Ferry, 24, son of rock star Bryan, drove back to a friend's place after drinking seven vodkas and Red Bull

Road safety groups slammed his let-off. Angie Alcock, whose husband Andy was killed by a drunk driver, said: "The sooner they bring in zero tolerance then the closer we will be to saving people's lives." More...

Frazer Sibley a hunt supporter, has been found guilty at Chichester Magistrates Court of assaulting Christopher Black during a meet of the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Hunt on 17th February 2005.

Sibley of Bignor Park Road Nursery, Bignor Park Road, Bignor, West Sussex, RH20 1HG was given a two year Conditional Discharge and ordered to pay £250 costs. More...

A FARMER and hunt master who kicked his ex-wife and hit her with a tool from his stables has been jailed for ten weeks.

Essex Union Hunt master Simon Upton was sentenced less than a year after a previous court appearance saw him fined for assaulting an anti-hunt protester. More...

A COUNTRYSIDE Alliance supporter and a whipper-in for the East Devon Hunt has been found guilty of attacking a campaigner who was filming a hunting event. Christopher Marles, 44, of Farringdon, near Exeter, repeatedly punched Kevin Hill, a hunt monitor with the International Fund for Animal Welfare. More...

A Countryside Alliance supporter has been convicted of attacking a hunt saboteur on the last day before hunting with dogs was banned on February last year. Video footage shown in court shows Spencer threatening hunt saboteur prior to the attack.

Farm worker, Wayne Spencer, 39, of Oakhurst Lane, Billingshurst, West Sussex, was found guilty of assaulting Simon Clear but amazingly cleared of actual bodily harm. The incident happened after the final meet of Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Hunt at Petworth Park, West Sussex. More...

Video: Frazer Sibley and Wayne Spencer unprovoked attacks

John Wesley, a Crawley and Horsham hunt "supporter", pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention, having no insurance and failing to report an accident.

Horsham magistrates, Sussex gave Wesley 9 points on his licence but he received less than £500 in fines, costs and compensation, and was only ordered to pay £80 of more than £2,000 damage he caused, after he rammed a hunt monitor's minibus off the road. Wesley is already banned from driving having been convicted for having no insurance on a more recent occasion. More...

"You are all fair game, I've told everyone" says Kim Richardson, the "money-man" and head of the West Sussex based Crawley and Horsham Hunt. Seconds after this video was shot, a hunt supporter head-butted a 17 year old anti-hunt campaigner in front of Richardson, breaking his nose, which required surgery. Police have now said there is insufficient evidence to prosecute. Kim Richardson is the son of the late Sir Michael Richardson who was know as "Mr Privatisation" and was a darling of Lady Thatcher during the 1980s. However, before Sir Michael's recent death, he was thrown out of the City by the Regulator for "practices that could have faciliated money laundering", and forced to pay the Regulator £70,000 in costs. Kim has now inherited his father's fortune and is known as a bullying playboy. Video: Kim Richardson's Threat