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Hunting

Great Britain · Government / Labour Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

2005

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair18 February 2005

Government / Labour Party Government

The Hunting Act, the ban on hunting with dogs, comes into force. Hounds ca follow a scent & flush out a fox & foxes can still be shot, or killed by birds of prey, after being tracked by a pair of hounds

Kate Hoey2005

Government / Labour Party Government

Countryside Alliance Chairman & Labour Member of Parliament Kate Hoey warned that more foxes were being killed now than when hunting was legal

Names involved

Anthony Charles Lynton BlairKate Hoey

Provenance

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