Five Arrested in Crackdown On Hunting Hares with Hounds Police Drive Against Suspected Poachers

The Herald (April 12, 2005)

Author: Martin Williams

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FIVE people have been arrested following a crackdown on poachers hunting hares with hounds on an estate in defiance of blood sports laws.

Grampian Police confirmed yesterday that it had targeted suspected hunters at the weekend after several reported incidents at Fasque Estate in Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, the ancestral home of the Gladstone family and for 20 years the home of William Gladstone, the former prime minister.

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Five Arrested in Crackdown On Hunting Hares with Hounds Police Drive Against Suspected Poachers

The estate, which caters for weddings and corporate events, including dinners and commercial shoots, has been targeted recently by people hunt...

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