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The first prosecution for hunting with a pack of dogs has been abandoned after becoming time
barred.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2003/12/17/newsstory5456198t0.asp
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Guardian: Scots take stock a year after hunt ban
Gerard Seenan. "Things are done in the countryside for a reason. You can't just come in and
change it and expect there to be no consequences."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/hunt/Story/0,2763,1007264,00.html
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Independent: Booming fox population kills record number of Scottish lambs
Paul Kelbie, Scotland correspondent. "Usually we can expect to lose about half a dozen lambs
each spring, but this year we lost up to about 50, despite the fact that we shot about a dozen
foxes ourselves."
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=427609
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Times: Scottish police not equipped to pursue packs
Shirley English. Describes the current situation of enforcing the ban on hunting in Scotland,
including comments from Chief Superintendent Watson McAteer of Scottish Borders Police who drafted
the policing strategy in the wake of the Scottish ban.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-733454,00.html
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Independent: Barbecues and tattie nights lost with demise of ancient hunt in Scotland
Terri Judd. Describes the economic and social consequences of the Dumfriesshire hunt disbanding.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=420877
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Times: Scots riders still turn out but the tally-ho has gone
Magnus Linklater. Describes the changes in Scotland for the fox hunts including the current status
of the appeals.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-732221,00.html
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Independent: Only one fox hunt disbands in Scotland but kill is up
Paul Kelbie, Scotland correspondent. Ironically, since the legisla-tion was passed by 68 MSPs to
36, with five abstentions, more foxes have been killed than in the year before the ban.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=420586
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Scotsman: Ban that polarised a nation
Paul Gallagher. Lord Watson's anti-hunting act has polarised Scotland while supporters and critics
of fox hunting agree that the bill is unworkable.
http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=486912003&tid=40
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Scotsman: Court overturns hunting ban fight
John Robertson, law correspondent. Two members of the Union of Country Sports Workers who went to
court in an attempt to have the ban on hunting with hounds in Scotland overturned were told
yesterday that their challenge, based on Articles Eight, Nine and Ten of the ECHR, was
unsuccessful.
http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=680312003&tid=40
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Telegraph: Challenge to ban on foxhunting is rejected
Tom Peterkin, Scottish political correspondent. The challenge by two members of the Union of
Country Sports Workers to overturn the Scottish foxhunting ban by claiming that it infringed human
rights failed yesterday when a judge ruled that the legislation was legitimate. The decision will
be appealed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/21/nscfox21.xml
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Telegraph Outdoors: Scottish fudge
Justin Cartwright. Describes the effect on foxes of the new pest-control laws in Scotland requiring
hounds to drive foxes to guns, as shown by a day's hunting with the Duke of Buccleuch's Hunt.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/outdoors/main.jhtml?xml=/outdoors/2003/02/08/ofox08.xml
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Telegraph: Hunting ban 'in breach of human rights'
Auslan Cramb, Scotland Correspondent. Two hunt enthusiasts began a legal challenge yesterday
against the ban on fox hunting, claiming their human rights had been breached. Gerard Moynihan QC,
appearing for Scottish ministers contesting the action, said that international laws guaranteeing
participation in cultural life did not apply in this case.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/15/nhunt15.xml
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Times: Petition calls for Scots hunting ban review
Gillian Harris, Scotland Correspondent. Jeremy Whaley and Brian Friend, associate members of the
Union of Country Sports Workers, submitted a petition for judicial review claiming the Protection
of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill violates the Human Rights Act and the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,172-543383,00.html
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Scotland on Sunday: Capercaillie face fox snare threat
Jeremy Watson. The European Union, which has put £2.5m into a capercaillie protection programme in
Scotland, has urged the Scottish Executive to reduce the death toll of the capercaillie from the
huge rise in the number of fox snares being set by gamekeepers legally to protect the red grouse.
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/scotland.cfm?id=12402003
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Sunday Times: Foxhunting ban leads to rise in snared wildlife
Mark MacAskill and Donald Collins. The future of the capercaillie, one of Scotland¹s most
endangered species of birds, is being threatened by snares set by landowners to catch foxes in
response to the hunting ban.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-533032,00.html
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