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The Countryside Alliance’s Pukka collection
The range includes unisex polo shirts and ladies fitted polo shirts as well as unisex long sleeved rugby shirts and fitted rugby shirts for the girls. There are also two choices of the ever-popular baseball cap with pink for the girls and blue for the boys. The ladies shirts have the Country script logo across the middle of the back and the Alliance logo on the front left hem, while the unisex shirts have the Country logo on the back hem and the Alliance logo on the left arm.
To view and buy your Country clothing please visit the Countryside Alliance’s online shop at www.c-ashop.co.uk
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Clothing in the Country range is made from 100% quality cotton and to Pukka’s high standards. All the items come in a variety of colours – pink, navy, white and slate blue. The ladies shirts are available in sizes 8 to 18 and the unisex garments range from small to extra large.
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Countryside Alliance May 2009: Extremism, not hunting, should be police priority
The Countryside Alliance has welcomed new guidance* on the Hunting Act from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), but has warned that “whilst the policing of the Act is not a priority for the police or rural communities, the policing of animal rights extremism should be”. The new ACPO guidance suggests that gathering evidence of illegal hunting: “has proved a difficult task for the police, and with available resources it is likely to remain so”, and that forces would have to rely on anti-hunt activists to produce information although they should be “very cautious” of such groups. Richard Brunstrom, Chief Constable of North Wales Police and ACPO Rural Affairs spokesman, who produced the advice, added that: “Hunting is definitely not a policing priority. It is not illegal to wear a red coat and ride a horse in a public place”.
Simon Hart, Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, said: “The Alliance has been working both with local forces and with ACPO to minimise the confusion, concern and waste created by the Hunting Act. It is of huge credit both to the police and to hunts that the worst predictions of chaos have not come about, and that there have only been a tiny number of convictions related to hunts. It is clear that the police understand as much as the hunting community why the Act must be repealed.
“This guidance, however, deals only with the Hunting Act itself. We are also concerned by campaigns of violence and harassment by animal rights activists in a few areas of the countryside. An anti-hunting activist is awaiting trial for the for the murder of a hunt supporter last March and the next hunting season, which looks increasingly likely to be the last under the Hunting Act, could see increased extremism. Whilst the policing of the Hunting Act is not a priority for the police or rural communities, the policing of animal rights extremism should be”. |
March 2009 - from the Countryside Alliance:
Hunting Act prosecution collapses
The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped the high profile prosecution of huntsman Julian Barnfield, of the Heythrop Hunt in Oxfordshire, following a recent High Court ruling on the Hunting Act. Mr. Barnfield was charged with four offences of hunting a fox between November 2008 and February 2009. The case was reviewed following a High Court ruling in February that ‘searching’ for a mammal was not hunting, and that hunting could only be an ‘intentional’ activity. The Director of Public Prosecutions decided last week not to appeal the High Court judgement and today Mr. Barnfield was told that the case against him was to be discontinued. The CPS have just two other cases pending against hunts in Somerset and Northumberland. Simon Hart, Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, said: “The collapse of the case against Julian Barnfield is another nail in the coffin of the Hunting Act. The High Court judgment was always going to make prosecutions less likely and there can be no clearer illustration of that than the decision not to continue with this case. “The Act has failed completely, but a law which promotes so much conflict and causes so much confusion cannot be allowed to remain in force. There are no reasonable arguments left for retaining the Hunting Act so getting rid of it need not be complicated or time consuming. Bad laws should be repealed, and this is a very bad law”. |
Feb 2009 - from the Countryside Alliance:
High Court delivers new blow to Hunting Act
The High Court has today ruled for Tony Wright, the first huntsman to be prosecuted under the Hunting Act, rejecting an appeal by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) against the judgment in his acquittal. The ruling will make the prosecution of many Hunting Act offences much more difficult.
Tony Wright was originally prosecuted for an alleged offence which occurred a few weeks after the Hunting Act came into force in February 2005. He was found guilty in the Magistrates Court, but his conviction was subsequently overturned in Exeter Crown Court. The CPS appealed that judgment arguing that it should have been for Mr Wright to prove that he was hunting legally, and that ‘hunting a mammal’ includes ‘searching’ for it. The High Court today rejected that appeal.
Tony Wright said: “This prosecution has now dragged on for over three years and during that time I have been living under the threat of a criminal conviction. If this judgment, though, makes it less likely that other people will face the sort of vindictive prosecution that I have been through then it has all been worth it.”
Simon Hart, Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, said: “Even before today’s judgment only five people connected to hunts have been convicted of any offence since the Act came into force. The CPS argued in court that if it lost this appeal ‘prosecutions under the 2004 Act would rarely be viable’ so there should now be even fewer prosecutions. The Hunting Act is an increasingly pointless piece of legislation that offered little and has achieved less. Politicians of all parties are coming to realise that it has failed and it is now a question of when, not if, the Hunting Act is repealed.”
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