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Cheshire Hunt Point to Point Details of the newly re-vamped Cheshire Hunt Point to Point, and sponsorship packages, have now been released and can be found here.
The Art of Letter Writing.... Occasionally, and when well out of sight of the Masters, mounted followers of the Hunt may stray across land that they are not permitted to cross. Hunt officials regularly re-iterate to followers that they must never take a line other than that dictated by the Master of the day, and the majority of the time, this 'advice' is heeded. Incidents of occasional trespass are not a new phenomenon, as the letter below from 1883 shows, albeit in a far more eloquent and subtly cutting manner than much of the more modern email correspondence received on the same subject. Many thanks to Peter Moore-Dutton of Tushingham Hall for permitting us to reproduce this beautifully crafted letter.....
Boxing Day Meet on Sky News The annual Boxing Day meet at the Swan Hotel in Tarporley was very well attended as ever, and support for the Hunt was overwhelming. Thank you to all those that attended. Also in attendance was the Sky news crew, who captured the moment that the Hunt moved off, and reported on the ongoing fight to have the flawed Hunting Act repealed. To see the video, please follow the link below:- http://news.sky.com/home/video/politics/video/16137607
Cheshire Hunt Christmas Cards Hunt Christmas cards featuring stunning photography from Sarah Clegg and Mark Davenport are now available to buy at £5 per pack of six. They are available from Karen Kirk at Saturday meets, and by post (a postal charge applies) by contacting Di Woolley.
Cheshire Hunt Supporters Club Car followers are encouraged to join the Hunt Supporters Club if they are not already members, as a means of making a valuable contribution to the excellent sport provided. An application form can be downloaded from the Supporters Club page here.
Join the Mailing List! Members of the Cheshire Hunt Supporters Club can now subscribe to the CHSC mailing list to ensure that they are kept up to date with the latest news, events and updates via email and mobile phone text messaging. Even if you have previously provided your mobile number and / or email address, please log in and join the mailing list so that we can be sure that we have a consolidated list of people who would like to receive information in this way.
Limited Edition Cheshire Hunting Prints Andy Biggar, a professional photographer from Nantwich, has kindly offered the Cheshire Hunt Supporters Club a donation from the sale of two excellent hunting prints. The limited edition photographs feature evocative images of Cheshire Hounds, with Cholmondeley Castle in the background. To see the photographs in detail and order online, please click here. Many thanks to Andy for his generosity to the hunt.
Route 49 Scarecrow Trail Thanks to Millie Frith at the Swan in Tarporley for sending in the picture below. Millie created this fantastic scarecrow at the rear entrance to the hotel as a part of Tarporley's Route 49 scarecrow trail. Thanks also go to Di Woolley, Chairman of the Hunt Supporters Club, for providing relevant hunting attire.
Jimmy Edwards at The Blue Cap Many thanks to Mark Brazendale for providing the photograph below of Jimmy Edwards, the famous comedy actor and script-writer of the 40's, 50's and 60's. The photograph shows Jimmy mounted at a Cheshire Hunt meet at the Blue Cap in Sandiway. It is believed that the photograph hung on the wall of the Huntsman restaurant in Winsford up to forty years ago. If you have any further information about the photograph, please email Graham using the contact page.
The Cheshire Hunt Ball 2011 Details of the 2011 Hunt Ball are now available - please click here for more information.
Cheshire Hunt Christmas Cards A range of Christmas cards will be available shortly featuring stunning photography from Sarah Clegg and Mark Davenport. See below for a sneak preview, and check back for details of pricing and how to buy...
The Poaching Act? Statistics relating to Hunting Act convictions in 2010 show that the Act is “now about poaching, not about hunting” say Countryside Alliance. The statistics show 36 convictions under the Act in 2010, but only one involving a hunt registered with the Council of Hunting Associations*. The rest were for offences, primarily poaching, that are not connected to organised hunting. Poaching has been an offence for many hundreds of years and existing legislation enables the Police to secure convictions for the offence outwith the Hunting Act. The new Ministry of Justice figures take the number of people convicted between the Hunting Act coming into force in 2005 to the end of 2010 to 181, but only six of those relate to registered hunts. 97% of convictions relate to poaching or other casual hunting activities, including at least seven people who have been convicted of hunting rats. Countryside Alliance Chief Executive Alice Barnard commented: “The Hunting Act is being used almost exclusively by the Police to tackle poaching, lending a veneer of success-through-numbers to an Act that is now almost unanimously regarded as a dismal failure. Poaching was illegal before the Act and would continue to be illegal without it.“ The MPs who railroaded the Hunting Act through in late 2004 acted out of spite and without any recourse to evidence or to the practicalities of what they were doing. The result is a piece of legislation that has comprehensively failed and these statistics hold a mirror up to that fact. "The Act, however, does continue to be a way for animal rights vigilantes to make allegations against hunts and waste Police, CPS and Court time, often at huge cost to taxpayers. No one takes any pleasure in the current situation. It is farcical and there is no case to be made that the Act is effective in any way.” *The Council of Hunting Associations (CHA) includes: the Masters of Foxhounds Association, the Central Committee of Fell Packs, the Federation of Welsh Packs, the Association of Masters of Harriers and Beagles, the Masters of Basset Hounds Association, Masters of Deer Hounds Association and the Masters of Mink Hounds Association. There are over 325 hunts registered with the CHA in England and Wales.
Website Updates You have probably noticed that the website hasn't been updated for some time. Please accept our apologies for this - technical problems have prevented any updates being applied for some time. The problems have now been resolved, so if you have any news, events or images you would like to be added to the site please contact Graham.
Cheshire Hunt Ball 2010 Changes! Please click here to read important information regarding changes to the 2010 Hunt Ball & Dinner.
"Public Education" or flat broke? You may have seen that the League Against Cruel Sports has this week launched what it calls a "public education campaign" to "see off" the campaign for repeal. In launching this latest drive there were the usual claims about the success of the Act and the high conviction rate - read a news story in the Western Daily Press here. The truth is somewhat different. It took £30 million to get the Hunting Act onto the Statute Book in the first place - the League was central to this, yet it still got things wrong and is now trying to justify its position. The bigger picture for the organisation, and the real reason it is selling
off some of its land, is that it is clearly trying to stem diminishing funding that would appear to be the
result of ever decreasing support. Desperate times call for desperate measures. The anti-hunting lobby has
lost the argument; the Hunting Act is a bad law that has been criticised by the media, the police, the
judiciary, many veterinarians and recently senior Whitehall officials. Only last week the Government's own
response to a recently closed online petition calling for repeal of the Hunting Act was to say the Act "has
not been a demonstrable success, and is difficult to enforce. It is an unnecessary drain on police resources
and there have been few prosecutions. Only three hunts have been successfully prosecuted for illegal
hunting.” www.countryside-alliance.org.uk
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