00:00 We've got more blocking. We've got where hounds have been. Yeah, they've marked here, definitely.
00:10 On Thursday 25th January 2024, the Heathrop Hunt were hunting on Diddley Squatterland,
00:16 owned by Jeremy Clarkson. Charlie Frampton was huntsman on the day and therefore in charge
00:21 of the pack of hounds. They were heard speaking inland and were believed to be marking to
00:25 ground, where hounds indicate that a fox has escaped below ground, for example into a badger
00:30 set. Why are you playing that Jason? I'm just watching Instagram. You're just coincidentally
00:38 watching Instagram? Yeah. The music you can hear is being played by our Heathrop Hunt
00:47 stalkers. These are hunt supporters who are tasked throughout the day to follow us around,
00:51 to make noise such as playing music, to make it harder for us to hear the hunt, especially
00:55 when we think that hounds may be marking to ground, and also to put off any fox from running
01:00 in our direction whilst being hunted. They also relay our location back to the hunt themselves
01:06 so that they can try to avoid us. What are they doing that for? Our saps attended the
01:11 location again a few days later in order to prove that the set was active. So Heathrop
01:17 Hunt currently at Jeremy Clarkson's place. Presently hounds are speaking on what is believed
01:24 to belong to Jeremy Clarkson. Yeah, get that in the report. Oh yes! Marking to ground!
01:37 And this is definitely freshly blocked. We've got where hounds have been. Yeah, they've
01:47 marked here, definitely. We've got another entrance here blocked. About moving that.
01:55 You can see that's a set entrance. Bloody big. More hound prints here. And looks like
02:09 hounds may have been digging here. But if the fox did go to ground in here, where did
02:29 he go? I'm going to go and unblock a few more at the other side, call the police, get back
02:35 to the car and go home. I think I'm tired. So the badger set that was blocked is here.
02:43 I'll find another couple of open entrances to put these cameras up. Hound prints are
02:51 still here. The hound print's still here, even though it's about a week later. That
03:12 looks like it might be... I did open a few holes here. I might open some more up. Yeah,
03:19 lots and lots of fresh bedding just through there. You see that? I'm just going to take
03:28 a picture of that. And I'm going to put a camera up. Less than a month later, on 20th
03:57 February, the Heathrob were again hunting in the local area. This time, the pack was
04:03 under control of Chris Woodward, a huntsman who has multiple convictions for illegal hunting
04:08 offences and for blocking a badger set. When the set was checked on Diddley Squatland,
04:14 it was again found to be hard blocked. It is worth noting that all of this is taking
04:40 place within the badger breeding season, and that this area is signed up to be part of
04:45 the Badger Cull in Oxfordshire. The zone that this is in will soon become supplementary,
04:50 meaning that licences will allow for contractors to kill badgers between June and January each
04:55 year, as if the badgers didn't already have enough to contend with.
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