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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The BBC is already giving Nigel Farage coverage for a speech he hasn’t even delivered. Report on what he says tomorrow, by all means. But previewing it now gives him free publicity and lets him set the agenda before anyone can scrutinise his words.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is it safe to convict someone for causing multiple deaths by venous air embolism (VAE) when there is no evidence any death was caused by VAE?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time to join the Pheasants’ Revolt… DEFRA have launched a Call for Evidence on the environmental & animal welfare impacts of the gamebird industry. If you care about this, PLEASE submit evidence - this @wildjustice.bsky.social blog tells you how: wildjustice.org.uk/defras-call-...
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Defra’s Call for Evidence on gamebird releases; what exactly is it asking for? – Wild Justice
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 10/09/2026
Did you know that 50m battery-reared pheasants - double the biomass of all our native birds put together - are released here EVERY YEAR?! Clearly a subject ripe for comedy... which is why @rosieisaholt.bsky.social and I did a show about it for @wildjustice.bsky.social at #wildsummit26 yesterday.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Some 50 million pheasants are released into the countryside annually. Now DEFRA have opened a Call for Evidence on gamebird rearing, releasing & shooting, it’s vital that the public input - because you can be sure that the shooting industry will do so: consultations.defra.gov.uk/call-for-evi...
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Call for Evidence on Gamebird Release, Shooting and Welfare during Rearing in England
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is seeking evidence on the environmental and animal health and welfare impacts of gamebird rea...
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Every Last Station @everylaststation.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So close to £2,000. Beyond grateful for every single donation! Be it £1 or £200. Each one means the world to me! www.justgiving.com/page/highlan... Also thank you for every single like, comment and repost! I’ll try and catch up with comments before bed. It’s tough to do while walking!
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Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Outrage as 2.7 million chicken mega 'factory' proposed for quiet North Yorkshire village climatewithbrian.com/2026/06/23/o...
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Outrage as 2.7 million chicken mega-farm proposed for quiet North Yorkshire village
Plans to build a large chicken factory farm, capable of producing 2.7 million birds each year in the village of Melmerby, near Ripon, are coming under renewed scrutiny from campaigners. Forest Poul…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is why we can't have rich ecosystems and safe food. The farm lobby threatens us all. www.grilled.media/inside-copa-...
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Inside Big Ag’s plot to kill the EU Green Deal
Documents from inside Europe's most powerful farming lobby reveal plans to block efforts to cut pesticide use and reduce factory farm pollution
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
On Wednesday, Parliament will vote on the UK's 7th Carbon Budget, aligned with the scientific advice from the Climate Change Committee. Kemi Badenoch will lead her party in voting against it. The temperature in London on Wednesday:
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Two out of the (only) three White-tailed Eagles fledged in England in 2025 have since 'disappeared in suspicious circumstances', i.e. people killed them within months. Read this, and see how much effort those people go to, to kill them. We all know who & why. Two out of three. Within months.
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The first white-tailed eagle to fledge in Dorset for more than 240 years has gone missing on the North York Moors “The disappearance is being treated as suspicious” “Birds of prey regularly go missing in areas associated with game shooting” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rare white-tailed eagle disappearance investigated by police
The satellite-tagged bird, part of a breeding programme, lost contact in the North York Moors.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
1. Every year, large areas of gorse in Dartmoor and Exmoor national parks are deliberately burnt. It’s an appalling act of vandalism, killing wildlife, preventing regeneration of crucial habitats, releasing toxic smoke and carbon. This thread is about why it’s happening. Pic from this weekend. 1/7
Burnt gorse on Dartmoor
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 12/04/2026
Although, if they continue to ignore widespread illegal persecution, many of them will end up poisoned, shot or battered to death on grouse moors. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Government backs permanent return of golden eagles to England
The birds could be reintroduced as early as next year following a £1m injection from the government.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Next week, MPs will vote on a bill to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests, turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state. It must be opposed tribunemag.co.uk/2026/04/prot...
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Protest Is Not a Privilege
Next week, MPs will vote on a bill to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests, turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state. It must be opposed.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Dartmoor has been deliberately set ablaze tonight. An apocalyptic photo of swaling (moorland burning) that I’ve been sent, of the moor alight at Corndon Down, Spitchwick Common. All burning is meant to end on Dartmoor today, 31st March - and many birds will already be nesting this early spring. 😢
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 20/03/2026
60 million pheasants and red legged partridges are released annually. That's more than double the amount of our native breeding bird biomass released into the landscape EVERY autumn. And most never even get shot. The majority starve, get predated or are hit by SUVs.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
These are the scenes at Mercure Nottingham City Centre Hotel. Sickening use of deadly bird netting that ends up with birds trapped and starving to death. Police have been contacted. Please sign the petition calling on the hotel to end the use of netting: protectthewild.org.uk/mercure-hote...
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 23/01/2026
Stop. Hen harriers are close to functionally extinct in England, because driven grouse shooting estates ruthlessly exterminate them because they predate the red grouse that toffs and traders will pay £35k a day to mow down with shotguns. Carry on.
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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 26/12/2025
The Telegraph having a perfectly normal one this Boxing Day I see I’m pretty sure most people can manage a walk in the country without ripping foxes limb from limb by ‘accident’
Absolutely unhinged headline on the front page of the Telegraph newspaper saying “What will Labour ban next… the country walk?” Next to a photo of a foxhound, just to make it clear what they really mean. (Subtexts are for cowards and all that)
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Boxing day hunts to be thing of the past with trail hunting set to be banned www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Boxing day hunts to be thing of the past with trail hunting set to be banned
Trail hunting sees a scent laid out for the hunt to follow rather than a real animal, and was introduced as a replacement for fox hunting, which was banned by Labour in 2004
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Shooting hares will finally be banned for most of the year, and a ban on trail hunting will be announced Monday as part of a package of animal welfare measures Will the govt also move to ban or license grouse & pheasant shooting…? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Shooting hares in England to be banned for most of the year
Exclusive: Ministers also expected to announce trail-hunting ban in sweeping changes to animal welfare law
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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
A yellow tractor on a London street, driven by a man dressed as Father Christmas. The sign on the front reads 'Farmer Christmas: The Naughty List. Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, David Lammy, Diane Abbott, Angela Rayner, the BBC.'
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Andrew Urquhart @andrewurquhart.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
In 'Lie of the Land' @guyshrubsole.bsky.social highlights that 2% of our wheat is for pheasant rearing, about 32,000 ha That's 50% more than 21,200 ha in 2024 for ground-mounted solar, not all on arable land Questions over priorities when the value of electricity is traded against food security
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
What we’ve done to the salmon: the fastest and largest animal domestication project that humanity has ever undertaken. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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What we’ve done to the salmon
The particular cruelty behind farming America’s favorite fish.
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 14/11/2025
If the grouse shooting industry are to be believed, Susie probably stamped her own chicks to death before turning the gun on herself. Oh well. By a happy coincidence, less hen harriers means more red grouse for the toffs to shoot. @raptorpersuk.bsky.social raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
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Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I was glad to help out in a small way with Paul's film by providing the map he features of Schwarzman's 2 estates - Conholt Park and neighbouring Hippenscombe. You can explore the interactive map here: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
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Stephen Schwarzman estates - Google My Maps
Stephen Schwarzman estates
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends. 90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts. 90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends. Public ownership would make a difference.
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If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership
Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Reform is the political arm of the fossil fuel industry in the UK. novaramedia.com/2025/05/09/r...
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Reform Is the Political Arm of the Fossil Fuel Industry | Novara Media
Nearly half of Reform’s donations in 2024 came from fossil fuel investors and climate deniers. No wonder the party wants to bin net zero, writes Harriet Williamson.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Fed up of choking on smoke from nearby grouse moors, Sheffield residents have set up @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social, to push for a community buyout of the Duke of Rutland's Moscar Moor - & use new powers under forthcoming ‘Community Right to Buy’ legislation 1/ www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ...
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Duke urged to sell 'trashed' grouse moor 'to people of Sheffield'
Conservation campaigners are set to bid for a “trashed” grouse moor near Sheffield to “restore it to its former glory.”
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“If Darwall v Dartmoor is to be a truly landmark decision, the government must act to ensure a right to sleep under the stars applies to all national parks and wild country." Stirring words from @campaignerkate.bsky.social - completely agree! www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/politic...
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Campaigners push for wild camping laws in Peak District after Dartmoor victory
After the Supreme Court overruled private landowners to allow wild camping in the Dartmoor National Park this week, campaigners have vowed to keep fighting to establish similar legal rights in the Pea...
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Landowners release 50million pheasants a year into the British countryside - and a new study shows how this is boosting the number of ticks carrying Lyme disease www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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We’re Releasing Millions Of Birds. The Ticks Are Thriving
Each year, millions of pheasants are released into woods and fields in the U.K. for recreational shooting. As a result the bacteria that cause Lyme disease are increasing.
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Just 850 more signatures will bring us to 100,000 and trigger a debate in parliament. Plz share widely - I’m holding my breath! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Eye-opening graph. The biggest wildfire incidents in the UK don't occur when it's hottest, in high summer: they take place in April - *when landowners set fire to their grouse moors & lose control of burns.* Time to ban moorland burning. Source: www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/sites/defaul...
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Hugh Pumphrey @hughpumphrey.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Some of you might be interested in signing this. It is most of the way to the 100000 that it needs to trigger a debate in parliament. The video is quite amusing even if the message of it is grim.
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 09/04/2025
THEY DO NOT WANT YOU TO SEE THIS! LEAKED - GAMEKEEPER TRAINING VIDEO Explaining the wholescale extermination of wildlife - aka vermin - on driven grouse moors. You can sign the petition to ban DGS here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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gillianfoxcroft.bsky.social @gillianfoxcroft.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"A controlled burn which escalated"...#BeeleyMoor was burning 2 days ago...threatening ground nesting birds, amphibians and much more. Surely no need for burning and what was the reason for it? #BanDrivenGrouseShooting @wildjustice.bsky.social @naturescotland.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
85,000 signatures for our ban driven grouse shooting petition – thank you 🙏 Only 15K more to go to trigger a Parliamentary debate. Please keep signing and sharing govpetition.uk/p/700036 ✍️
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 28/03/2025
🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
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Casimir Engine @casimirradio.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The great people at Forestry England are allowing the holiday park side of the business to clear a massive area of ancient woodland on the site to create a holiday park with two storey cabins, jacuzzis, car parking for 80 plus cars and more. The full story is here. www.savematlockforest.org
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Save Matlock Forest - A campaign to save Farley Moor from development
Forest Holidays want to build lodges on a beautiful public woodland. If you are a walker, birdwatcher or nature lover join our campaign
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I’ll never forget hearing from people, eager to help & already active in this field, whose calls were not even returned.
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Blimey. I wonder whether Garrigill, in Cumbria, has been classified as a hen harrier persecution hotspot? I can see why the prominent grouse moor landowners might want that status kept under wraps. #RaptorResearch #Ornithology #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/03/05/n...
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Natural England quietly releases intriguing grouse moor location where two shot brood meddled hen harriers found dead
Just before Christmas 2024, Natural England published a blog that included information on the fates of two satellite-tagged brood-meddled hen harriers that had previously been listed as ‘Miss…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much. The real #TwoTierPolicing www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Hundreds of tractors block Westminster
Farmers from across the UK protesting in London against changes to inheritance tax.
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
July 2024: Five UK climate protesters jailed for conspiracy to block major road February 2025:
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Alex Kanefsky (he/him) @alexkanefsky.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Happy to sign because I think having a healthy ecosystem & not killing endangered birds is more important than rich twats who want to play with guns
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The Melbreak & Blencathra hunts are two of the worst. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Good to see they've been issued with warning letters by @Cumbriapolice on grounds of anti-social behaviour & noise nuisance etc. Next step = prosecution. Hunts "decline to comment".
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Two Cumbrian hunt groups issued with police warning
Police say they have received
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