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Gaby Hinsliff, chief political correspondent. The Government admits the only way of telling whether
rules have been broken will be by animal welfare workers, many of whom may have clashed with local
hunts in the past, volunteering to follow meets and spy on any misdemeanours.
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The Scotsman: Something missing on Boxing Day hunts
Boxing Day hunts were held in Scotland despite Mike Watson's law, while LACS held its biggest
protest in Winslow, England. Actress Annette Crosbie, the new president of the League, said:
"Protesting is unfortunate, but reason and logic doesn't get you anywhere."
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Guardian: Boxing Day hunts and protests draw thousands
NOP found that 41% of voters supported a "middle way" solution of regulating hunts that
struck a "balance between civil liberties and animal welfare". Mori found 80% of British
people thought hunting with dogs was cruel, but didn't ask whether it should be banned.
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Birmingham Post: Hunters vow to return
Shahid Naqvi. David Palmer, joint master of the Worcestershire Hunt: "The protesters are very
welcome to come and present their view but they have an outdated argument against what they see as
the toffs enjoying themselves, which is just not true."
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Derbyshire Evening Telegraph: Foxed the lot!
The new Government proposals to control foxhunting appeared to please neither side of the heated
debate in Derbyshire yesterday. Those who support the controversial sport and those vehemently
against it were united in their opposition to the new scheme.
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Guardian: Hunting compromise woos Labour rebels
Nicholas Watt and Rebecca Allison. "The bill will end the sport of fox hunting because it will
only be allowed as a form of pest control," one government source said. "You will only be
allowed to hunt if you have a pink jacket with Rentokil on the back."
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Independent: Supporters of hunting ban claim support of key MPs
Marie Woolf, chief political correspondent. Ministers are said to be enthusiastic about a
compromise suggested by Michael Foster, the leading anti-hunt campaigner and Labour MP for
Worcester. He wants a complete ban on hare coursing, a ban on cubbing (the practice of setting
hounds on young foxes at the start of the season) and more categorical assurances on bans on
hunting in lowland areas.
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Telegraph: Labour MPs plan revolt on Hunting Bill
Charles Clover, environment editor. Under pressure from Britain's three million coarse, game and
sea anglers, and led by Martin Salter, the Government's spokesman on shooting and fishing, Labour
backbenchers are backing amendments scrapping the tests of "utility" and "least
suffering" against which the Bill says any form of hunting should be judged. In parts of
Germany controlled by the Greens, British troops were told they would have to kill everything they
caught as only fishing for the pot was morally justified.
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Telegraph: Peer and butler see off hunt saboteurs
Neil Tweedie and Stewart Payne. Lord Hesketh and his butler, who had been handing out stirrup cups,
intervened with two estate workers to block their way when half a dozen protesters dressed in
camouflage attempted to force their way up the steps leading to the front entrance of the house.
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Telegraph: We'll fight on, say stag groups
Richard Savill. Tom Yandle, chairman of the Master of Deerhounds Association, said, "We should
have the same opportunity of getting licences and fulfilling the Government's principles of utility
and cruelty as any other pack of hounds hunting foxes or hares."
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Independent: Mr Blair's cowardice on hunting has wasted far too much time already
Leader. The Independent argues that it is wrong to criminalise things people do simply because lots
of other people - possibly even a majority - disapprove of them. There are signs that the public is
more open-minded than simple opinion polls suggest. When presented with the "balance of
cruelty" argument, support for a total ban falls sharply.
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Independent: A traditional day for the foxhunters: animal rights protests and an uncertain future
Terry Kirby, chief reporter. The turkey-eating Judy Gilbert explains why she wants to ban the
hunting of poultry-eating foxes.
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Independent: On Porlock Hill they are baying for blood
Mark Rowe. "We're not going to say 'oh dear', shoot our hounds and sit down with a good book.
There will be gross civil disobedience."
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Independent: Hunted down for an exclusive interview: Mr Fox
Terence Blacker. "You lot are quite happy to eat meat or poultry or fish that has involved
animals being crammed into lorries and transported hundreds of miles to slaughterhouses or being
factory-farmed, but the sight of a hedgehog with a broken leg gives you a complete nervous
breakdown. Morally you humans are in a complete muddle."
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Independent: Hunts ready for what may be final great gathering on Boxing Day
Terry Kirby, chief reporter. There is still immense pressure on politicians from the animals rights
lobby to introduce a complete ban. There is also fierce opposition among the huntsmen. The two
sides look likely to do battle in the countryside as well as in the pages of the newspapers. In
keeping with the tradition, protests by anti-hunt supporters are expected at today's meets but are
likely to be low-key.
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BBC: Boxing Day hunts reopen bitter debate
Annette Crosbie, the new president of the League Against Cruel Sports, explains why she backs
anti-hunt protesters: "You have to make that kind of gesture, because simple reason and logic
doesn't really get you anywhere, which is what the Countryside Alliance realised rather
quickly."
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Telegraph: Majority 'now in favour of compromise on hunting'
Charles Clover, environment editor and Benedict Brogan, political correspondent. A NOP poll,
conducted for the Campaign for Hunting between Dec 13 and 15, found that only 36 per cent of the
public want hunting with dogs abolished, despite the determination of most Labour MPs to push
through an outright ban.
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Telegraph: Government 'determined to bring in anti-hunt law'
The Hunting Bill will start its committee stage on Jan 7. Of the 32 MPs on the committee it is
understood that 20 back an outright ban, 10 support the status quo or the middle way, and 2 are
keen supporters of the Government's plans.
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Telegraph: Hunt supporter could not afford fare to court
Richard Alleyne. Proceedings of the hearing at Bow Street magistrates' court in central London for
the four protesters charged during the demonstration outside Parliament over the Hunting Bill.
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Independent: If it's Boxing Day, it must be Winslow
Cole Moreton. Ah, the traditional sights and sounds of Boxing Day: the snorting of horses and
baying of foxhounds; the warming tones of a Salvation Army band; the merry jingle of television
camera cables; and the vigorous chanting of ruddy-faced animal rights protesters. All these will be
present in Market Square, Winslow, in Buckinghamshire, on Thursday as it hosts the seasonal
face-off between horsey folk in pinks and those who regard them barbaric.
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Observer Sport: Hare today, gone tomorrow
Will Buckley. Attending a coursing trial in East Anglis, the author decides it is an acquired
taste, not particularly for him, but that is no reason to outlaw it.
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Observer: Pro-hunt militants plot blockade war
Mark Townsend. A concerted campaign of major disruption is being planned by pro-hunt militants
following last week's protests outside Parliament, although the Countryside Action Network is
against any strategy that involves violence and criminal damage.
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icWales: Hunt campaigner predicts ban
Brian Davies lives in the United States and organised donations of more than £1m to the Labour
Party in 1997 and a further £30,000 from Mr Davies's UK-based campaign, the Political Animal Lobby,
before last year's election. He predicted that the compromise deal recently offered by Rural
Affairs Minister Alun Michael would be defeated in the Commons in favour of an outright ban. From
The Western Mail.
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icWales: `Legislate on principle not on prejudice'
Leader from The Western Mail. The Minister for Rural Affairs, Alun Michael, has yet to produce
evidence in any degree of the "incontrovertible evidence" of deer and competitive hare
coursing not meeting such set criteria. Such alleged incontrovertible evidence was not published in
the Government's own inquiry into hunting - the Burns Inquiry. If such damning
"incontrovert-ible evidence" were so clear, then experts would produce it and agree on it
- they have not.
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Telegraph: Anti-hunt MPs dominate Commons committee
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Guardian: Pro-hunt protesters try to storm parliament
Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. The bill, the protests, the hopes of the government, the
intentions of Labour backbenchers.
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Telegraph: Yesterday in Parliament: Protesters told to show respect
Michael Kallenbach, parliamentary correspondent. Clips from speeches by MPs during the Second
Reading debate of the Hunting Bill in Commons.
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Telegraph: Angry hunt supporters lay siege to Commons
George Jones and Andrew Sparrow. Demonstrators staged a noisy sit-down protest, bringing chaos to
Parliament Square as MPs debated a Government Bill.
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BBC: Hunting debate attracts angry demo
The bill was given its second reading by 368 votes to 155, but there was scant support for the
proposals from Labour backbenchers who are determined to ignore the principles of utility and
cruelty and amend it into a total ban.
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Financial Times: Stalemate on foxhunting must end, says minister
James Blitz, political editor. Interviewed on Sky News's Sunday with Adam Boulton programme, Mr
Michael was asked whether, ultimately, the government would invoke the Parliament Act. He said:
"What we want to do is have the bill scrutinised and improved, but at the end of the day, if
it came to that, we have made it clear, there is a manifesto commitment, that we will enable
parliament to reach a conclusion on this.
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Guardian: New attempt to break hunting stalemate
Michael White, political editor. Senior ministers are still clinging to the hope that a politically
messy confrontation can be avoided between the pro- and anti-hunting lobbies as MPs prepare to vote
on the issue tonight for the sixth time since 1997.
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Telegraph: Taxpayer will foot bill for groups to oppose hunts
Charles Clover, environment editor. Plans to make grants to prescribed animal organisations, hidden
in the small print of the Bill, aroused fierce criticism last night from Opposition MPs and from
hunts, which will have to pay to be registered under the Bill to use dogs for pest control.
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Independent: I simply can't stand animals wearing clothes
Sue Arnold. A warning to children's authors to lay off indoctrinating kids with anthropomorphic
twaddle.
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Telegraph: Scots ride rings round hunting ban
Auslan Cramb. Only one of the 10 Scottish hunts has disbanded. The rest are killing more foxes than
ever. Richard Holman-Baird, of the Kincardineshire hunt, said: "So we are eradicating the fox
population in these areas instead of getting rid of the weaker members."
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Sunday Telegraph: This silly hunting fudge will never work
Max Hastings, president of the CPRE. Field sports must stand or fall on the principle that the
pursuit of the birds and beasts of the field is one of the oldest and most natural human
activities. As soon as anyone starts to measure "cruelty", the cause is lost, above all
in the case of coarse fish, tormented by rod and line before being returned to the water to suffer
the same ordeal again and again.
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Scotland on Sunday: Hunts claim fox deaths soar after ban
Claire Gardner. The new Protection of Wild Mammals Bill which which allows hunting but insists on
foxes being shot rather than killed by hounds has resulted in 250 dead foxes since August, compared
with 140 in 2000. Hunts also claim a large number of foxes have escaped with serious injuries after
being hit by gunshots and not killed outright.
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Manchester News: MP vows to continue campaign
MP Gerald Kaufman attacked the proposal to licence fox hunting case by case as a "botched''
attempt to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
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Telegraph: Hook, line and sinker
Leader. Coarse fishing has no "utility" whatsoever and may cause pain and distress to the
fish. On the Michael test, it is far less easy to justify than any foxhunting. And it is done by
two million people, most of whom are Labour supporters. The Government's hook is caught in the seat
of its own pants.
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Telegraph: Hunting Bill puts shooting and fishing in danger
Charles Clover, environment editor. Representatives of Britain's four million fishermen and
shooters said they were concerned about what would happen if the tests of "utility" and
"least suffering" were extended to their sports, both of which are done largely or solely
for pleasure.
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icSurrey: Hunt protesters given 1,000 hours of community service
Five anti-hunt protesters were each sentenced to 200-240 hours of community punishment at Guildford
Crown Court in result of a major police operation codenamed Operation Tempo. Shaun Reeves, 28, of
Tenterton, Kent; Joan Blanch, 51, and Michael Seal, 43, both of Tunbridge Wells; Randolph
McFarlane, 33, of Brighton, and Kate Fowler, 31, of Pyecombe, were part of a 55-strong mob that
hurled bricks and missiles causing more than £3,000 worth of damage to a house next to the Old
Surrey, Burstow and West Kent hunt kennels in September 2000. One resident and three police
officers were injured in the attack.
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Yorkshire Post: The hunt is on, again
Leader. Were the Prime Minister truly concerned with animal welfare, he would ignore the opinions
of Labour voters and mount a campaign against angling, he would antagonise the food industry by
taking a stand against battery farming and he would brave the wrath of the multiculturalist lobby
by pointing out that the suffering caused by halal and kosher slaughter practices is greater than
that inflicted on the fox by the huntsman.
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Guardian: Hunt bill protest gathers pace
Anne Perkins, political correspondent. A significant minority of Labour backbenchers are so angry
that the government has backed off a total ban, using the Parliament Act to force the legislation
through the Lords if necessary, that they will abstain on the second reading.
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Telegraph: Cowardice and hypocrisy at the heart of Labour
Boris Johnson. The whole thing reeks of bullying and cowardice; and, in that, the hunting Bill is
consonant with almost everything else that Labour does. If Labour had any principle or logic, it
would treat hunting the same as halal butchery, and hares the same as rabbits. It does not.
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Telegraph: Anti-hunt MPs step up fight for complete ban
Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Mr Michael is likely to push this Bill through the Commons
only if he wins the support of many pro-hunting MPs, mainly Tories, and if some of the MPs who
voted for a total ban in the past change their minds.
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Telegraph: How is our sport so cruel, ask deer hunts
Charles Clover, environment editor. Alun Michael claimed there was incontrovertible evidence that
deer hunting is cruel. Simon Hart of the CA points out that "this evidence has not been
published, as he said it would be, which is worrying." Others have remarked that it is curious
that Mr Michael should have said the evidence against hare coursing was incontrovertible while the
evidence in favour of the control of rabbits and rats with dogs was incontrovertible too.
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Telegraph: Villagers prepare for a determined fight to the end
Richard Savill. Yesterday, villagers in Exford still believed they could block any ban with a
determined fight. However, there was deep-rooted anger about the potential economic consequences if
the ban on stag hunting goes ahead.
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Independent: We're witnessing the death throes of a cruel sport
Jackie Ballard, director general of the RSPCA, calls on Tony Blair to give in to his backbenchers
and make all hunting of mammals (as opposed to fish and birds) illegal immediately.
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Independent: Labour backbenchers accuse minister of botching Bill to curb blood sports
Marie Woolf, political correspondent. Whips are understood to be trying to calm furious Labour
backbench MPs who have accused the Government of reneging on a pledge to ban hunting with dogs.
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icWales: 'If fox hunting is banned community will become casualty'
88 packs of hounds will be destroyed, jobs will be lost and communities will be destroyed - for
what?
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icWales: MPs may halt hunting compromise
Nick Speed political editor. Plaid Cymru, meanwhile, was fuming at Mr Michael's response to its
inquiries into whether there would be a separate registrar and tribunal for Wales when the minister
answered it would be "a national body covering England and Wales." Caernarfon MP Hywel
Williams claimed that the response showed "a total disregard not only for the National
Assembly but for everybody living in Wales."
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icWales: `Back-door ban' feared by union
The Farmers' Union of Wales's land use officer, Rhian Nowell-Phillips, said, "Animal welfare
organisations are never going to recognise hunting with dogs, applications are going to be
automatically opposed, taking out of farmers' hands the ability to control predators."
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Canoe News: Brits compromise on fox hunt
Sue Leeman, Associated Press. Friends and foes of fox hunting were united in their opposition
Wednesday to a proposed licensing system on the traditional sport that would ban some hunts but
allow others. Canada.
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New York Times: British Plan Would Spare Some Fox Hunting
Warren Hoge. For country dwellers who see their concerns, communities and livelihoods being
overshadowed by dominant urban interests, the fox hunting issue has become emblematic. The
Countryside Alliance has cast its position as one of protecting minority rights against a
domineering majority, and as the last defense against prohibitive action that would end up
outlawing all country sport. USA.
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Financial Times: PM risks backbench row over hunting proposals
John Mason and Krisha Guha. Tony Blair risked a new confrontation with his backbenchers yesterday
after ministers announced fox-hunting should be regulated rather than banned outright. The move,
amid widespread unease in Labour ranks over foundation hospitals, top-up fees and Iraq, was
attacked by anti-hunting MPs.
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Guardian Politics: Full text: Commons statement on hunting
"Most people want to see cruelty prevented. They also want farmers, gamekeepers and others who
have to manage the land to be able to do so."
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Guardian: Time trail
Timeline showing Labour's five year pursuit of hunting ban.
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Guardian: Government hunts for a compromise
Michael White, political editor. If passed by both Houses of Parliament, which are as divided as
the wider public, the hunting bill would ban hare coursing and stag-hunting while protecting
angling and shooting as well as falconry. Ratting with terrier packs and rabbiting will be allowed
under the bill, not least because alternatives such as poisoning and trapping are deemed more
cruel. Rats are a threat to people and livestock, ministers point out.
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Guardian: Pink coats left dangling on a golden thread
Simon Hoggart. MP's take advantage that Alun Michael's Hunting Bill continues to allow rabbiting
and ratting, and turn on Mr Michael.
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Guardian: Ministers could join revolt against rules to allow hunt
Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. Labour opponents of hunting reacted furiously when Mr
Michael indicated that their overwhelming opposition to may count for nothing.
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Guardian: Year of the fox
Leader. The majority should not ride roughshod over the minority. Few things are less attractive
than campaigners who are libertarian about everything except liberty.
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Telegraph: Yesterday in Parliament
Michael Kallenbach, parliamentary correspondent and Frank Johnson, Commons sketch-writer. Summaries
and soundbites from MP's and ministers.
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Telegraph: Ban would destroy way of life on Exmoor
Richard Savill. The pursuit is part of the culture, the social and economic life of the region.
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Telegraph: Bitter fighting lies ahead as Labour MPs go in for the kill
A show of support by Mr Blair and Cabinet members for the compromise could sway many Labour
backbenchers, particularly younger, more ambitious MPs, who might want to demonstrate that they
were backing the Government line.
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Telegraph: Minister offers hunts a stay of execution
Charles Clover, environment editor. Although Mr Michael made explicit undertakings that the
Government had "no intention whatsoever of placing restrictions on the sports of angling and
shooting" devotees of those sports will be casting an uneasy eye over his statement this
morning to see if it sets a precedent for banning them in the future.
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Telegraph: Jumping into a thicket
Leader. It is fair to say that, if the principles of avoiding cruelty and recognising utility that
the Bill enunciates were pursued in good faith by the proposed registrar, the great bulk of hunts
and most forms of hunting would survive. That good faith is called into question, though, by the
Government's declaration that it will definitely ban hare-coursing and stag-hunting, because they
fail the tests, and permit rabbiting and ratting, because they pass them.
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Telegraph: Blair faces revolt over registered foxhunting
George Jones and Charles Clover. Tony Blair was facing open revolt in the Labour Party last night
over a compromise proposal to allow foxhunting under certain conditions. Labour MPs described as a
"fudge" the new Hunting Bill which would outlaw hare coursing and stag hunting in England
and Wales but would let foxhunting continue if it were given the go-ahead by an independent
registrar. Ratting and rabbiting with dogs would also be allowed.
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BBC: Head to Head: Hunting 'compromise'
The government looks set to offer a compromise to pro-hunters and their anti-hunt counterparts with
a licensing system banning some hunts but allowing others. Pro-ban Lib Dem MP Norman Baker and
pro-hunting Tory MP Michael Fabricant discuss whether a government compromise will work.
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BBC: Head to head: New hunting proposals
Tim Lewin, a hunt master at the Ledbury Hunt in Gloucestershire, and Josey Sharrad, fox hunting
campaigner for the Campaign for the Protection of Hunted Animals, respond to plans to licence
hunting with dogs.
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BBC: Hunting compromise outlined
Unveiling the proposals, Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael recommended a complete ban on stag
hunting and hare coursing. He said that whether hunting with dogs was allowed in other cases would
be judged on a case-by-case basis by an independent registrar.
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Sky News: New Moves on Hunting
Rural Affairs minister Alun Michael is expected to make a statement to MPs about hunting with
hounds. It is not clear whether he will unveil plans for a second Hunting Bill or if he will
instead announce the results of a consultation held in September when experts were invited to give
evidence on the traditional country sport.
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Telegraph: Hunt saboteur 'can't guarantee prince's safety'
Richard Savill. Paul Richardson denied the Sunday Express article that the Beaufort Fox Sabs plan
to knock Prince William off his horse the next time he rides to hounds.
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Telegraph: Deer society presses for inquiry into sanctuary
Daniel Foggo. The British Deer Society is calling for an independent inquiry into allegations that
the League Against Cruel Sports, the anti-hunting animal welfare group, is neglecting deer on its
sanctuary on Exmoor.
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