“throughout the winter, hunts up and down the country will be sticking two fingers up at the law”

The skills your horse learns on the hunting field can equip him for a surprising array of summer disciplines, finds Tessa Waugh

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Patrick Galbraith calls for a bit less tinkering around the hedges

D o you remember cecil the lion, the bold, wild and archetypally handsome big cat at Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park? With a glorious flowing mane and a royal swagger, Cecil was the star attraction at

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It’s 9pm in late april in an area of the Isle of Man known as the Ballaugh Curragh, and a most unusual nocturnal migration is taking place. As darkness descends on a 2km² area of wet woodland, an esti