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Simon Burch. Its opponents call it a cruel anachronism and want it banned, while its supporters say
it is a priceless way of life. Feature writer Simon Burch joined the Meynell Hunt to find out more
for himself.
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=64361&command=displayContent&s....
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Times: Fox on the run as island calls in marksmen
Russell Jenkins and Valerie Elliot. Explains the problems with trying to shoot foxes, especially in
developed areas.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-493934,00.html
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Telegraph: League Against Cruel Sports accused of starving deer on its own sanctuary
According to the league's own (anti-hunting) deerstalker, the deer should be humanely culled to
avoid the suffering of individual deer. According to Douglas Batchelor, nature (starvation, disease
and hypothermia) should be left to control excessive deer populations.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/24/ndeer24.xml
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Evening News: Extremists attack Fat Lady's shop
Mark Smith. Two Fat Ladies star Clarissa Dickson Wright's shop in the Grassmarket has been
vandalised by animal rights extremists. Her outspoken views in support of fox hunting have made her
a target for animal rights extremists in the past but this is the first time her shop in the
Capital has been vandalised.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1236622002
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Times: Ministers still cannot shoot straight on hunting
Aidan Harrison. Why any Bill published with a title along the lines of "The Protection of Wild
Mammals..." will be a lie.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-477541,00.html
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Telegraph: Militant group declares 'war' on hunt ban
Daniel Foggo. The spokesman for the Real CA, a hardline splinter group, announced the decision at a
summit meeting held two days previous that when the terms of the new Bill are deemed to be a
'hostile', then the response of the group will escalate to the disruption of utilities.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/17/nhunt17.xml
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Telegraph: Queen's Speech gives hope to hunt campaigners
The mood among Countryside Alliance supporters was upbeat as a record 15,000 crowd turned out
yesterday for its annual fund-raiser at Cheltenham racecourse.
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/16/nalli16.xml
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CNS News: UK To Push Ahead With Hunting Restrictions, Possible Ban
Mike Wendling, London Bureau Chief. Parliament continues to appear preoccupied with hunting ahead
of all other issues. USA.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/archive/200211/FOR20021113g.html
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Financial Times: The Queen's Speech: Parliamentary showdown on hunting with dogs expected after Christmas
John Mason. Alun Michael, rural affairs minister, ix expected to announce the government's proposal
on hunting with dogs before the Commons rises for the Christmas holiday. The parliamentary showdown
will take place after Christmas, the government said.
http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=021114000750
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Independent: Battle looms over pledge to reach a conclusion on fox-hunting law
Nigel Morris, political correspondent. The Rural Affairs minister has been taking evidence and
listening to the views of animal welfare and pro-hunting groups, trying to identify "as much
common ground as possible". But the Government said a hunting Bill will only be introduced,
"based on evidence and principle", once the minister had finished considering all the
evidence.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=351918
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Times: MPs give early hunt warning
Melissa Kite, political correspondent. In all 160 MPs, most Labour, have signed a Commons motion
welcoming confirmation in the Queen's Speech that a Hunting Bill will be brought forward this
session, but making clear that a compromise Bill will not be acceptable.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,635-480853,00.html
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BBC: Hunt groups say 'no middle way'
Pro- and anti-hunt groups in the South West have been considering what has been announced in the
Queen's Speech.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2465385.stm
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BBC: Ban hunting, MPs urge
The reactions of all sides to the Queen's Speech: the League Against Cruel Sports, the Countryside
Alliance and the Middle Way Group.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2474323.stm
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Times: Tribunals seen as answer to hunt ban issue
Valerie Elliott, countryside editor. Alun Michael, Rural Affairs Minister, is to meet some Labour
MPs next week. One of his arguments is to point to the legal muddle created by the hunting ban in
Scotland and new concerns about animal welfare as more foxes are being shot and left wounded.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,173-479676,00.html
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Telegraph: Hunt supporters in final campaign to prevent ban
Charles Clover, environment editor. The alliance, in a "Declaration of Cohesion" said
after yesterday's Queen's Speech: "A partial ban on legitimate hunting has no evidence to
support it, is based on prejudice not good sense, and would be fought with implacable resolve and
with all lawful means at our disposal."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/14/nhunt14.xml
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Telegraph: Police refuse to prosecute Scots hunt
Tom Peterkin, Scotland political correspondent. A police spokesman said: "The matter was
discussed with the procurator-fiscal and it was concluded that no crime had been committed."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/14/nhunt114.xml
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Guardian: Fight for outright ban left to MPs
Lucy Ward, political correspondent. The wording of the speech suggests that, as campaigners
predict, the government is unlikely to put forward legislation paving the way for an outright
hunting ban.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,839381,00.html
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Times: Hunt ban architect backs field sports
Mike Watson, the driving force behind the foxhunting ban in Scotland and now the Scottish Minister
for Tourism, Culture and Sport, claims that grouse-shooting and deer-stalking are vital to the
Scottish rural economy.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,635-478554,00.html
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Times: Rural workers mount human rights challenge
Anthony Browne, environment editor. The Union of Country Sports Workers representing gamekeepers
and huntsmen is seeking a judicial review to overturn the Scottish ban on hunting with dogs on the
grounds that it is illegal discrimination.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,172-478556,00.html
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Telegraph: Peer behind Bill to ban foxhunting praises shooting
Tom Peterkin, Scotland political correspondent. Lord Watson of Invergowrie, the MSP behind the
foxhunting ban, was accused of hypocrisy yesterday after he extolled the virtues of shooting game
and stalking deer.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/13/nshunt13.xml
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Sunday Times: Licensing system will be tactic to wipe out hunts
Eben Black and Jonathan Leake. Ministers plan a rigorous system of licensing for foxhunting likely
to result in the disappearance of most hunts under proposals set to be announced in this week¹s
Queen¹s speech.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-475485,00.html
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Sunday Times: Mean fields: Anyone for a fox kebab?
Jonathan Miller. "The verdict? Hunting is, I suppose, quite good fun if risking your life and
surviving is how you get your buzz. As to its cruelty, the grim commissars have still to explain to
my satisfaction how hunting is any more cruel than exterminating rats. But now that we live in a
one-party state I do not suppose rational argument will play much part in the decision to ban it,
or not."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-474740,00.html
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Telegraph: Field sport foes will sit in judgment on local hunts
Francis Elliott, deputy political editor. The proposed law will ban hare coursing and staghunting,
allow rat and rabbit hunting, and use tribunals, chaired by senior legal figures and including
members from animal welfare and countryside groups, to rule on individual foxhunts being both
necessary and the most humane method. If there is no consensus, the chairman will decide.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/10/nhunt110.xml
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Telegraph: McCartney's freed foxes overwhelm local farms
Daniel Foggo. A former member of the League stated that five or six foxes at a time were released
on to Sir Paul McCartney's land, and once 15 or 16. With no rabbit habitat in the dense, coniferous
wood the foxes dispersed to the neighbouring land on which farmers keep sheep. Foxes being
territorial they kept moving on until they found a vacant area.
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Times: Forget foxhunting, what about the halal butchery?
Anthony Browne. Since many Islamic authorities accept stunning of animals prior to slaughter,
producing cruelty-free halal, there is no religious justification for this cruelty - it is just
cultural practice. MPs opposing foxhunting and not the far greater cruelties of ritual slaughter
are hypocrites waging class war.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3284-471840,00.html
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Times: Blair takes soft option on Section 28 and hunting
Philip Webster, political editor. The Queen's Speech will reveal that the repeal of Section 28 will
be missing from the Local Government Bill and the Government's favoured solution for dealing with a
ban of foxhunting, whatever that may be, will also missing.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,635-468796,00.html
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Independent: Defiant Ledbury hunters refuse to sound the Last Post
Brian Viner. Mr Leeke dismissed the painful notion that this might be the Ledbury's valedictory
season after 192 years. "I feel we've won the arguments," he said, "but we have not
yet won the hearts and minds of MPs.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=348066
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Independent: Mr Blair should show some courage and outfox his critics
Leader. What would be really courageous, however, would be to recognise that the Government should
not press ahead with a ban, not because it is not worth the trouble but because it is wrong in
principle. The true liberal ought to recognise that other people must be allowed to do things of
which the majority disapprove, provided the balance of harm is roughly even.
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=348039
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Telegraph: Campaign to show real hunt enthusiasts
Peter Foster. The Countryside Alliance's new advertising campaign features a plumber, a student and
a gay couple. The campaign is aimed at challenging the stereotypical perceptions of hunting that
supporters say are peddled by opponents who want the sport banned.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/01/nhunt01.xml
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