{"id":347399,"date":"2026-01-02T02:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347399\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:37:09","slug":"wheelton-hundreds-turn-out-for-trail-hunt-as-prospect-of-ban-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347399\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheelton: Hundreds turn out for trail hunt as prospect of ban looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds turned out for a New Year&#8217;s Day hunt meeting against the backdrop of a potential ban on the event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lancashire Wheelton hunt is one of a number around the country that became trail hunts after fox hunting was banned in 2005. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trail hunts, which see an animal-based scent trail laid for hounds and hunters to follow, rather than real foxes, faces being outlawed by the government. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Supporters of the Lancashire hunt said it was an important part of the rural economy, while opponents said hunts overstated their relevance to countryside life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds turned out for a New Year&#8217;s Day hunt meeting against the backdrop of a potential ban on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-347399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}