Farmers have welcomed tougher laws and sentences for anyone caught hare coursing - an illegal blood sport where people use dogs to chase hares over farmland for large bets.
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Across the country, farmers say criminal gangs have subjected them to extreme threats of violence, destroyed property and harmed livestock. A warning, there are distressing scenes of animal cruelty in his report.
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