Earlier this year an article about hunt insurance and related equine insurances appeared in Insurance Times, the UK’s top insurance sector magazine. It revealed the shocking truth about the insurers who offer insurance to hunts even though, as the journalist said, the fact that the majority of hunts still hunt foxes is ‘one of the UK countryside’s worst kept secrets’.…
This document covers the fox hunting season August 2021 – April 2022. It details the reported activities of two fox hunts in one small area, the Torrington Farmers Hunt and Stevenstone Hunt, revealing hunt and hound trespass, wildlife crime, road traffic crime, assault, verbal abuse, and antisocial behaviour. The intelligence was sent to the Great Torrington Events Safety Committee Facebook page…
Thanks to the pandemic millions of us are taking our holidays in the UK. Let’s take a look at what one small town in beautiful North Devon has to offer Britain’s holidaymakers. The Amateur Brain Surgery Team welcomes you to our guide to holidays in Great Torrington, an affectionately frank article about Torrington and the surrounding area revealed by the…
On Saturday 3rd April 1993 Tom Worby, aged just 15, was killed by huntsman Tony Ball at the closing meet of the Cambridgeshire Foxhounds at Low Farm near Gravesley in Cambridgeshire. Mr Ball was never charged or convicted for this unlawful killing. This was the very first time Tom Worby had accompanied hunt saboteurs on their mission to protect wildlife.…
The 2019 Torrington Farmers Hunt Boxing Day meet in the centre of Great Torrington was a remarkable event for one key reason. The TFH had actually submitted details of their event and they even applied to Devon County Highways for road closure. Remarkable! Previously they have never formally applied for road closure and have never at any time in the…
The Cottesmore Hunt are a notorious organised criminal gang who routinely engage in illegal fox-hunting, aided by a number of knuckle-dragging, violent supporters who have openly admitted that the Cottesmore Hunt ignores the ban on fox-hunting. One of these supporters (Marc Birney) has recently attempted to discourage Northants Hunt Saboteurs from mentioning his fellow, violent, hunt supporting fools Ollie Barton…
Fox hunting in the UK is massively unpopular, as reflected in numerous polls. It is widely understood that Theresa May’s statement in 2017, that she was in favour of fox hunting, cost the Tory party valuable votes in the snap election that year. So why have a number of prominent Conservative ministers and MPs recently hosted fox hunt meets on…
Do Something About the Torrington Farmers Boxing Day Hunt Meet! To hold a Boxing Day meet in the centre of Great Torrington in 2019 the Torrington Farmers Hunt MUST have submitted a request for temporary road closure, to Devon County Highways, 3 months in advance.Also, to allow them to legally collect cash, they must have applied for a street collection…
The exceptionalism that is applied to people involved in Hunting, throughout the UK, is staggering. While regular members of public can expect to be pulled over, reprimanded and potentially fined for road traffic offences, such as driving without due care and attention or using a mobile device while at the wheel, people engaged in hunting are repeatedly getting away with…