ian briggs runs the rspca's investigations wing. pa rt the rspca's investigations wing.job is the rspca's investigations wing. part of his job is to the rspca's investigations wing. part of hisjob is to run surveillance operations to catch badger baiters in the act. it is a highly covert activity, in chiller groups, very difficult to get the information of what they are doing. you know, these gangs are coming out early morning, late evening, to promote locations, sometimes with landowner permission, sometimes not, you know, they are hidden away from public view. they live and breathe taking their dogs out into the countryside to kill wildlife. tomas has invited our undercover journalist to go and lamping. it is the type of hunting that is done at night using high—powered torches. we don't know if they will be carrying weapons like guns or knives. aaron has beenjoined by a weapons like guns or knives. aaron has been joined by a second undercover man who we are calling john. undercover man who we are calling john. when i went out that evening, i was under the impression th

david bowles from the rspca is in our london newsroom. good morning. this story is almost a bit of a quirky story, a grandmother wa kes of a quirky story, a grandmother wakes up to a course in her backyard, whale! but it is a serious message behind it. absolutely. the story contains two worrying things. 0bviously story contains two worrying things. obviously the 13—year—old girl was on the internet looking at free ads and she saw the ad which said that u nless and she saw the ad which said that unless you take this course i am going to kill it. the shoes at 0k, bring it over. the first problem, people buying and selling animals on the internet. —— horse. the rspca is concerned about that and we need tighter regulations and the other thing is there is a huge symptomatic problem here of a horse crisis, the rspca last year had the like 80,000 horses that it came out to investigate and last year, horses we re investigate and last year, horses were our second highest number of animals that we had to prosecute the cruelty. we have seen over the last two year

the rspca says the abandoning of a horse in a back yard in stoke—on—trent has highlighted a growing animal. the pony was delivered after a 13—year—old girl answered an online advert, appealing for someone to save it from being put to sleep. a few hours later it was delivered to her grandmother's house. it has now been rehomed. campaigners says the numbers of abandoned horses is rising. the story contains two worrying things, obviously. the 13—year—old girl was on the internet looking at free ads and she saw this ad which said "unless you take this horse i am going to kill it", so she said "ok, bring it over to me". so that's the first problem, people buying and selling animals such as horses on the internet, which the rspca is very concerned is about, and we need tighter regulations. the other issue is it shows there is a problem here of a horse crisis. the rspca last year had something like 80,000 horses that it came out to investigate, and last year horses were our second highest number of animals that we had to prosecute for cruelty. we have seen, over the last two years, a huge increas

the rspca says the law is ineffective and unjust and needs replacing.t by dozens of women in hollywood. speaking to american vogue, georgina chapman said she was never suspicious about his behaviour but admitted that she has been very naive. her fashion brand, marchesa, has been tainted by its association with weinstein. the aa says there have been more insurance claims so far in 2018 from drivers hitting potholes than in the whole of last year. it says the number of potholes is a national disgrace and the damage is costing £1 million a month to deal with. the department for transport says it's provided enough money to repair six million potholes. it's a shocking reminder of the state britain's rides have coming to. it's almost a national embarrassment, actually, the state of main roads, residential streets and even motorways where potholes are appearing after the harsh winter that we've had, and the amount that insurers are beginning to pay out has really skyrocketed. so much going on with sport. we spoke aboutjohn watson, he will speak to us later, we

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