fox hunting

In one incident, an older hunt follower spent several minutes walking towards a field as the hounds were in cry.

KAUTO STAR and Ruby Walsh were magnificent yesterday as they put on an exhibition to take away the breath of even the most cynical National Hunt follower.

Tensions between hunt supporters and their opponents were ramped up this week following the death of middle-aged hunt follower hit by a gyrocopter at Long Marston airfield, near Stratford-Upon-Avon.

A stag hunt follower convicted of attacking an animal welfare officer at a meet on Exmoor has been given a suspended prison sentence.

Richard Gordon, spokesperson for the Countryside Alliance, dismisses pictures of a hunt follower kicking a fox to death as an "aberration".

A JURY has cleared gyrocopter pilot Bryan Griffiths of the manslaughter by gross negligence of hunt follower Trevor Morse.

A stag hunt follower was yesterday convicted of attacking an animal welfare officer at a meet on Exmoor.

I was horrified by the recent story and pictures of a 14-year- old hunt follower trying to kill a deer by drowning it in a river.

THE death of a Warwickshire hunt follower who collided with an animal rights activists' gyrocopter was undeniably a tragedy and his relatives deserve every sympathy at this traumatic time.

I have for many years been an enthusiastic hunt follower. I had always believed that hunt advocates were right - that animals could not experience fear or pain but did enjoy the excitement of the chase.

Is it extremely rare that a hunt follower ever sees the kill.

In the absence of any more figures, it still appears the public can be told a pack of lies by any hunt follower or animal rights fanatic.