article_snippet.sent: Fox hunting was outlawed in 2005 under Tony Blair's government, but groups continue to meet by using trail hunting, usually with a hunt member dragging the scent of a fox across fields and woodlands.
article_snippet.sent: Other hunts use an exemption that allows dogs to flush out the animals from woodland which can then be shot.
article_snippet.sent: There were more than 400 prosecutions under the controversial Hunting Act between 2009 and 2013.
article_snippet.sent: Just 49 people were charged with hunting offences in 2005, but this more than doubled to 110 by 2010.
article_snippet.sent: Fox hunting with dogs was outlawed in 2005 under Tony Blair's government, but groups continue to meet by using trail hunting (file picture)
article_snippet.sent: However critics claim many of these people are prosecuted under the Hunting Act for poaching offences, rather than fox hunting, and that hardly any are from official hunts.