Owen Patterson, the Environment Secretary and the Cabinet’s leading supporter of hunting and other country sports has admitted there is little hope of the hunting ban being repealed.
Mr Patterson told today's Daily Telegraph that he accepts there is no prospect of winning a vote next year, saying only that the vote will come "at an appropriate moment."
Mr Paterson said: "There’s only a point having a vote if you’re going to win. "At the moment I, it would not be my proposal to bring forward a vote which we were going to lose. There needs to be more work done on members of...
Picture this: a big field full of stalls, kids and dogs having a blast, laughter, the smell of barbecue in the air... sounds good?
Join us for a Pawesome Day Out – a fun-filled charity event for the whole family (furry friends included!) on Sunday 31st August from 12pm at St Martin’s Football Club, Exminster.
Lucas Helps Dogs and Claudia’s Canines, a professional dog walking business based in Exminster and owned by Claudia Pinn, have organised this event to raise much-needed funds for the millions of street dogs and cats in Sri Lanka. All money raised will directly support...
Neil Parish MP joins Battersea Dogs & Cats Home to shine a spotlight on the appalling underworld of backstreet dog breeding
Neil Parish MP, Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare, is backing a new campaign by leading animal welfare charity, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home to urge prospective dog owners to think twice about how they buy a dog, in an attempt to crack down on the horrific practice of backstreet dog breeding.
Relentless breeding of dogs in dirty, squalid conditions takes place in neighbourhoods across the UK, so Battersea has...
Mon 02 Jun 2014 | 8pm | £7 | Tickets go on sale in early May Victoria Melody presents Major Tom This one-woman, one-dog show features Victoria and her Basset Hound, Major Tom. Major Tom is the story of how an average 34-year-old became a beauty queen and how her unruly pet basset hound, Major Tom, became a championship show dog. Major Tom and Victoria increasingly immerse themselves in the obsessive and confusing realm of personal scrutiny as they participate as genuine contestants, determined to win. Victoria, accompanied on stage by documentary film footage and her dog, tells this true...
