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| Police View
of a hunting ban - Two chief constables voice their concern on
a ban on hunting.
Timelines -On the current Hunting
Bill, the attempts to ban hunting, and on the ban in Scotland.
Hunting vs. Human
Rights - Parliament has advised that the Hunting Bill is incompatible
with the Human Rights Act. |
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The ban has guaranteed that the time and money invested by the League
Against Cruel Sports and the RSPCA has increased animal suffering.
We told them this would happen. This rise in suffering since the ban
is the cost of ignoring that warning!
Daily Telegraph
3 May 2005.
Numerous police officers accompanied the more than 250 hunts which
took place yesterday, the first day that the sport became illegal.
Despite the friendly exchanges between officers and huntsmen and women,
the presence of the police posed a question: what public good were
they trying to uphold?
Daily Telegraph
20 February 2005.
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| Hunt ban bites in countryside
- 18 August 2005 |
Rural businesspeople in Yorkshire say they are already being
hit by the effects of the ban on hunting with dogs even though the
new hunting season is still more than two months away.
Six months after the ban came into force, livery yards, farriers,
blacksmiths and those who make saddlery and hunting clothes are starting
to suffer from the dwindling numbers of hunters.
The ban on fox hunting with dogs came into force on February 18 after
the Government used the Parliament Act to override opposition by the
House of Lords.
Shelagh Tinnion, whose daughter runs livery stables in North Yorkshire,
said her business had been affected by the ban – and she predicted
it would be hit even worse as the time of the traditional start to
the hunting season approached.
She said: "We are coming to the end of August and it is the time
when the hunting horses would be starting to come in and they are
not.
"My daughter would normally have 10 or 12 horses
at this time of year but now there are only four or five.
"She can't afford to run at a loss. She has already dropped her
charges for hunting horses from £125 a week to £75 to
keep the clients she has.
"Many other livery yards in
the area are experiencing the same situation with a dwindling number
of clients and owners are now diversifying and going into showing
and drag hunting.
"It's going to hit a lot of people
and have a knock-on effect with many businesses. I don't know if my
daughter's business will be able to survive."
Stephen Clark, who owns Ride-Away, a saddlery and country clothing
company based in York, said he was expecting a 20 per cent decline
in turnover as the number of people hunting fell.
He added: "The drop won't be enough to close us because a big
percentage of hunters will carry on but we will be affected once the
season starts."
Dorothy Fairburn, regional director of the Country Land and Business
Association, said it was too soon to say how badly businesses would
be affected because many hunts would try to carry on within the legal
boundaries.
But she added that there would be knock-on effects throughout the
rural community.
"Because Yorkshire is a great hunting
country, people come up to stay and go hunting, so I expect hotels
will miss out when the hunting season starts," she said.
"The implications are quite wide and if you are, for example,
a blacksmith then that is what you do and you can't suddenly go into
computer design. There aren't any alternatives for some people."
As well as fox hunting, deer-hunting and hare-coursing with dogs are
also outlawed in England and Wales but hunters are allowed to chase
rabbits or rats. They can also use no more than two dogs to flush
out a fox to be shot.
Exercising packs of hounds without using them to hunt is also legal,
as is drag hunting – chasing an artificial scent laid earlier.
PLEASE NOTE - © Johnston Press
New Media 2005.
The text above is directly from The Yorkshire Posts article "Hunt
ban bites in countryside" - access it below. |
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Yorkshire Post | 18 August 2005
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