With 36 years in hunt service behind him, Robert McCarthy is one of the country’s most senior and most respected huntsmen. He talks to Tessa Waugh about Crufts, the current situation and life in Northumberland

I’m on the edge of a seaside town, confronting sand. Fine sand, suitable for making sandcastles with very precise detailing. The sand, though, has come not from a beach near Hastings (the Sussex town

H&H’s hunting editor Catherine Austen ponders the lasting impressions that influential hunting people can make on us

As winter relinquishes its grip, Tessa Waugh enjoys a copybook meet, with convivial chat, springy turf and good sport – while the real hunting aficionados demonstrate their teleporting skills

GH ’s Simon Swift takes up a familial hobby — and with it a familiar habit of not finishing what he started…

The popular image of model railway enthusiasts may be granddads and grandsons building a layout in the loft. But one of the country’s most popular train shops is run by two sisters, Anne Martin and He