Holnicote

The National Trust have lifted the suspension of a prominent Somerset hunt, and allowed them back on to the Holnicote Estate on Exmoor after a row about their conduct there. The Minehead Harriers have been given back their licence to follow hounds on ...

The Minehead Harriers, seeking to overturn a ban on hunting on Somerset's Holnicote Estate, have pledged to treat anti-hunt protesters with “courtesy” – even if they engage in “provocative and offensive behaviour”. And the Somerset Hunt Saboteurs Group ...

The Minehead Harriers was told it would not be allowed on the vast National Trust-owned Holnicote Estate in west Somerset in January following repeated complaints that the hunt was illegally hunting. The hunt's suspension has lasted more than three ...

"I've never had five winners in a season before, let alone a week," smiled Broomfield trainer Teresa Clark after saddling a Holnicote double to make it five winners from five runners in the last seven days. She led off with HMS Intrepid, who led from ...

Somerset was confirmed as the 15th English county with the fungal disease after staff on the National Trust's Holnicote Estate near Minehead discovered blighted leaves on a handful of ash trees this month. The latest official figures reveal there are ...

Dozens of excited children took their parents to the annual Easter egg trails organised by the National Trust and Cadbury atthe Holnicote Estate and Dunster Castle. Clues and challenges paved the way over the sunny but cold Bank Holiday weekend, with ...