telegraph.co.uk - Hayley Dixon - 22 December 2019
Staring at the risk assessment for the fourth time when he would rather be out on his horse, Ivan Massow might have been forgiven for feeling like he wanted to give up.
But as Master of the Southdown and Eridge hunt he had vowed that he would not be beaten by the saboteurs and their attempts to “bury” the Boxing Day meet under a pile of papers.
Animal rights campaigners have made numerous attempts to tie the hunt in red tape, including calling on the council to ban them from public land, making health and safety complaints and complaining that they did not have a licence for the toast they raise before setting out.
“The antis have tried to bury us under a pile of paperwork and it is very, very...