 The Countryside Alliance. The Countryside Alliance (CA) is a British organisation promoting issues relating to the countryside such as food, farming and country sports (hunting, shooting and angling). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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A country sport or field sport is one of the traditional rural blood sports of hunting with various types of hound most commonly for fox, hare and red deer), shooting (particularly of game birds, such as grouse, partridge, pheasant and woodcock) and non game birds such as duck and snipe...
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It was formed in 1998 from three organisations: the British Field Sports Society, and two other organisations (the Countryside Business Group and the Countryside Movement) which were formed with help from the British Field Sports Society. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ...
Organisation
The organisation covers mainly England and Wales, and is split into 10 regions: The Scottish Countryside Alliance covers the country of Scotland and the Countryside Alliance Ireland both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. East of England is one of the official regions of England. ...
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Chair of the organisation The Chair of the Countryside Alliance is Labour MP Kate Hoey who represents the inner city seat of Vauxhall - The Alliance's head office is located in Kennington in Hoey's Vauxhall constituency. Catharine Letitia Hoey, known as Kate Hoey (born 21 June 1946, Belfast) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. ...
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Campaigns The focus of its campaigning has been to defend so called blood sports, hunting especially fox hunting, opposing the ban on fox hunting and other forms of hunting with hounds, which came into effect (in England and Wales) in February 2005. Amongst other causes, the Scottish Countryside Alliance campaigns against the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002, which banned hunting north of the border. “Hunter†redirects here. ...
A fox hunt Fox hunting is a form of hunting for foxes using a pack of scent hounds. ...
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The Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act was passed by the devolved Scottish parliament in February 2002, making Scotland the first part of the United Kingdom to ban traditional fox hunting and hare coursing. ...
Opponents of the Alliance claim that this is the sole focus of the organisation, a claim it denies, saying that this campaigning is a response to the government's "preoccupation with the issue". Supporters of legislation have questioned the credibility of the Countryside Alliance claims to speak for the countryside when polls suggest people in rural areas are divided in their support for/opposition to hunting with hounds in much the same proportion as the urban population.[citation needed]
In response, the Countryside Alliance points to its campaigns try to preserve rural life in other ways, such as encouraging tourism (particularly important after the 2001 outbreak of foot and mouth disease), encouraging consumption of local seasonal food and trying to keep rural post offices and pubs open. Tourists on Oʻahu, Hawaii Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes, and also refers to the provision of services in support of this act. ...
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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), sometimes called hoof-and-mouth disease, is a highly contagious but non-fatal viral disease of cattle and pigs. ...
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The Countryside Alliance mounted a series of legal challenges to the Hunting Act 2004 that banned hunting with hounds (integral to the sport of, for example, fox hunting) in England & Wales from February 18, 2005, which have not so far met with success. The Hunting Act 2004 is an Act in the United Kingdom passed in 2004. ...
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Following the first conviction under the Hunting Act 2004 on August 4, 2006, the Countryside Alliance reaffirmed its belief that legislation was "illogical and unclear"[1] and vowed to support the appeal of the conviction. August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ...
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Scandal The Alliance's Director of the Campaign for Hunting, Phillipa Mayo, left her husband for the Conservative MP James Gray in 2006 (whilst Gray's own wife was undergoing treatment for breast cancer) causing much comment in the constituency and a letter in the local paper from her wronged husband[2]. James Gray could be James Gray the Libertarian judge and politician in the United States James Gray the British politician James Gray the researcher for Microsoft James Gray the filmmaker James Gray, Canadian musician (Blue Rodeo, Stratochief) James Gray, Canadian president of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. ...
Membership & Affiliations The CA claims 100,000 members (October 2002), and also claims that 400,000 supporters participated in its September 22, 2002 "Liberty & Livelihood March" in London, a figure accepted by the Metropolitan Police Service. September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ...
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The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is the Home Office police force responsible for Greater London, with the exception of the square mile of the City of London. ...
The CA is not affiliated to any particular political party. According to disclosures in the UK Data Protection Register, the CA carries out research on the backgrounds of those it considers to be its opponents. [3] The Data Protection Act 1984 is a British Act of Parliament that provides a legal basis for the privacy and protection of data of UK citizens and businesses. ...
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