Fox hunt chief gave ‘smokescreen’ tips to webinar audience

A farmer accused of encouraging illegal fox hunting was recorded explaining how to create a smokescreen after that ‘nasty man’ Tony Blair banned the practice. Mark Hankinson, 60, the Director of the Masters of the Foxhounds Association, gives advice on ‘trail hunting’ which is an activity allowing people on foot or horseback following a scent along a pre-determined route with hounds or beagles. Trail hunting was devised in the wake of the Hunting Act in order to replicate as closely…