Animal rights protesters targeted Jeremy Clarkson’s Hawkstone Brewery after he let a hunt whose members have been fined for animal cruelty offences onto his land.

Campaigners descended on the site in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucs., with banners reading “Jezza, hands of me badgers” and “Stop those dirty hunts”.

Three Counties Hunt Saboteurs and Gloucestershire Badger Office said they organised the protest after Clarkson allowed The Heythrop Hunt onto his estate.