League Against Cruel Sports Hunt Monitors filmed the Cheshire Forest Hunt trespassing and hunting on Duttons Hollow Nature Reserve, controlled by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust, on Saturday 2nd March. The Trust does not allow hunting on its land, a policy shared with 37 county wildlife trusts throughout Britain. The video was sent to the Trust and the local police.

The British Field Sports Society's representative, Jeffrey Olstead, carrying on his organisations reputation for inventive excuses, claimed they they were on the reserve trying to get away from hunt saboteurs 'on police advice'. Sadly for Mr Olstead the video suggests otherwise and the police denied that they had advised them to enter the reserve. Indeed they appeared quite annoyed that they had been used as scapegoats.

The same day, the hunt was also filmed with the hounds running out of control on a busy main road. The video has been added to the rest of the evidence being presented to Cheshire County Council by the League Against Cruel Sports Support Group as part of a package to persuade the Council to take action to safeguard other road users.

Published in Wildlife Guardian, Issue 36, Summer 1996