Nottingham Hunt Sabs News #01

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Welcome tn our first bulletin! The reason for this
is to increase peoples awareness of our activities and
tn give a much needed public profile following police
harrasment of our stall preventing us showing to the_
public the true face of hunting. HOPE YOU ENJOY IT!!
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August-October. The period when the hunt train the young hounds to hunt and kill foncubs and
the huntsoan learns to control the pack. Obviously this is the aost ieportant period in the foxhunting calender
and belon is a suaaary of our activities during this period. . " 3
gggmgggtggbgg: Cottesaore Foxhounds. 5:00 h.h. oeet. 24 sabs fro: Nottingham, Leicester and hanchester
present. 20 riders, 20_supporters and 5 police in 2 cars as sell. He took the hounds free the hunt on several
occasions by blosing of horns. Overall it uas a fairly quiet day with poor scent and no eind. There aere no,
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kills seen and the hunt finished at 9:30 0.5. e ' J "
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' §§h_§gptggbgg: Atherstone Foxhounds. 6:30 9.5. meet. 25 sabs present fro: Nottinghae, Leicester and
~' Lleanington Spa. 35 riders, 20 sppporters"and 25 police including riot vans, C.l.O., plain clothes, Chief __ _
. ;lnspector and lots of ordainary plods. He gained control of the pact frequently by blosing horns_and_holloaing.
It U35 a good sab despite the constant violence fros the hunt and heavy police presence: The scent was poor_eith
little wind. There was l kill just as we arrived and the hunt finished aid-eorning. ~_ ' "
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_ -eI lbth I Septembe-r: South No1 tts Foxhounds. 7:00 0.8. meet. 20 sabs from Nottin. ghamI, Le.:.e.ter_an i :,_j _
Northaspton. 35 riders, 5 supporters and only tuo police who, for a change, were fairly unbiased. He had a_ ,
'.-"_Oen;tral I.v..nias'=réfiio: ‘$11-r2n"us'fm day. ThBr£iI'aS the usual tactics of horn bloiiing, holloaing and use or _~
whips uhich seeeed to pork ugll although_it was a difficult area to sab. There was a little bit of yiolente froo
the hunt, bainly the terrier nan. The Central T.V. coverage folloning was typically biased towards the hunt gho
packed up late oorning.l _ 0 __ ~ _ _ _ r _ _ p __
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-. .. _ 30th Septeabeg: Cottesnore Foehounds. 7:00 A.h. aeet. 25 sabs fro: Nottinghaa, Leicester and , '
Peterborough. 25 riders, 25 supporters, 13 uniforoed and.tuo plain clothes 8.1.0. police. The police filoed our
actions all day possibly for future use against us. he took the hounds off the scent of a fox taice using horns
_and_hdlloas thus saving both. lt has a good sab with two lives saved, poor scent and no violence froo the hunt
althopgh the_police file cree harrased us all day. The hunt packed up aidday. 0 _ _ _
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7th October: Oottesaore Foshounds. 7:00 0.5. oeet. 30 sabs fron Nottingham, Leicester and Peterbprough.
30 riders and 25 supporters. There were 25 police present who threatened to arrest anyone who blea a horn
leucept the huntsoanl) Oue to this sabs could do little of value to disrupt the hunt except holloa on specific
occasions. Oespite"poor scent a fox was killed in a hedgerow surrounded by riders-sabs could not prevent_the ~
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kill. There was no violence froo the hunt and they packed up at oidday. _ "~ '
1iih_Q;tgbgg: High Peat Harriers. Opening oeet ll:00 h.h. 23 sabs free Nottingham and Sheffield. 40
riders, l0 supporters and 6 police in 2 cars. The hunt seeded to nova on anytine no closed in on thee thus
creating a cat and mouse situation which lasted all day with sabs chasing the hunt on foot. he called the hounds
frequently splitting the pack. he stopped the hounds literally 5 feet from killing a hare being horns, holloas
and whips which resulted in sone riders atteepting to sou down sabs using horses and hunting crops. he eanaged
to calm things down and no further threats occured. They possibly killed a hire towards the end of the day when
they managed to gain song distance on us. Overall a good days sobbing with good scenting conditions and lots of
ouch needed exercise uas had by all. The hunt finished at 4:30 P.H. - _ ' . ,
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§_st_,__Og_t_p__b_g:;: Cottesoure Foehounds. 8:00 A.l1. heat. 28 sabs froo Nottinghao, Leicester and Peterborough.
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30 riders, 20 supporters and 15 policp who again prevented us from blowing horns. They are continuing their
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canpaign against us in order to hale us completely ineffective in sabotaging the Cottesuore F.H. Not ouch could
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be done all day except that a hunt supporter knocked doen and killed a hound. The hunt have since tried to blade‘
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sabs {see press cutting) for this and as aental as ever Captain Fanshaue, the huntsoan, has stated that ea 3311
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kill then next. Ha! Ha! Ha! he treat the above coooent as a pathetic attespt to discredit us and disoiss it
outright. Overall it has poor scenting and they packed up at ll:00 h.h.
Zlstggcggggg: Oakley Foot Beagles. 12:00 oeet. 20 sabs iron Nottinghao and Leicester. l5 supporters, the
. huntsoan and tho nhipper-in's. No policell As the Oottesoore finished early it was decided to tackle a second q
pack. The hounds responded slightly to sabs horns but the huntsaan kept tight control using whistles. Some sabs
kept up with the hunt all day, They covered a,lot of ground and seeped to try to tire us out. (No such luck!) He
were told that the hunt had killed before so arrived. Poor scent, strong winds and driving rain livened things
up and the hunt finished late afternoon. .- -_ . ‘
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'Hell thats bulletin No. i. Hope you found it interesting. lf you uant to go sobbing contact us at our -g
address below. if you support us but can't go sabbing and would like more inforaation or would like to sake a
donation write to the ho: nuaber or fill out the standing order fore to becoae a ueaber of the Nottinghao Hunt_
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“We only experience disruptlor: from the
Atherstone Hunt members clashed
saboteurs about twice a year, and the; cer-
with saboteurs who tried to wreck
téinly won't stop us hunting," said Mr mart
their meet at Filldnglggr today. roves
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Hunt Saboteurs Associa on members from “There is no_ olbilection to them protesting
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three ‘Nottingham groups converged on the but it is disconce 'ng that they come carry-
hound during a hunt meet-.
village and police were called to the scene, ing cudgels _wearing balaclavas and using
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although no arrests were made. '- language which is, to say the least, unsa-
-Members ‘of the - Cottes-
There were heated exchanges and sabo-
‘more Hunt claim the sabo- teurs accused hunt members of violence ?qltugdboteur, vrhb refused to be named, said
tcurs blew distractinghunt- while riders said the £'OI.1p'$ tactics endan- they had been intimidated by _some hunt
ing horns which le some
gered the lives of houn and road users. -members but paid tribute to police "who, he
.hounds on to a road near said, had been “reasonable' and 'allowed
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them to stage their protest. .
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hounds, a bitc called Styl
islmvas struck bflua gassing
STOP PRESS
car on the-Up g am-to
Lyddington roag and killed,
“captain Bl‘l3._l_1 Fanshawe,
‘Master of the Cottesrnore;
Hunt, claimed ‘the hounds
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death was a direct result of
the saboteur-‘action, ‘and-
warncd similar =protestj
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actions couldscausc more
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asking for a meeting with "°'~U$ COTTESl"l0R.'-.5 sees:/-xi
senior police officers to_dis-
cuss the way hunt Ill€elll‘lgS
‘are pOl.lCBCl. N0 spokesman
for the demonstrators was
available for comment.
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