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Leader. The Government will be making a serious mistake if it continues to ignore the pleas of the
countryside - it could prove to be Labour's poll tax.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/1327709
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Observer: Foxes stir the soul of a nation: Saddam doesn't
Clive Aslet. After marching in both, the editor of Country Life compares the Countryside Liberty
and Livelihood march with the anti-war march.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,801072,00.html
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Observer: Fox-hunting celebrities named in militants' hit list
Paul Harris. The Urban Alliance with the support of Class War is circulating a property hit list in
an attempt to disrupt the Countryside Alliance March. ALF is also thought to be involved.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,784115,00.html
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Guardian: Hunting debate gets teeth into Plato, Aristotle, Harry and Pepper
Steven Morris. The Rev Andrew Linzey, vegan professor of ethics, theology and animal welfare
(funded by the IFAW) attempted to explain to the Government's Consultation why hunting was morally
wrong while it was acceptable for him to have cats which hunted, and to cook fish for them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,789822,00.html
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Mirror: Annette on her most important role
Interview with Annette Crosbie, new President of LACS, who claims humans are the nastiest species
of animal on the planet and that she herself is impatient, intolerant, judgmental and tactless and
the product of a dysfunctional family.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12520438&method=full&siteid=50143
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Derbyshire Evening Telegraph:
A beacon was lit on a hilltop overlooking Carsington Water last night to mark the beginning of a
week of protest, and many of the spectators will be on the 60-plus coaches which will travel on
Sunday from Derbyshire to the march in London. Some local supporters are interviewed.
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=64361&command=displayContent&s....
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Derbyshire Evening Telegraph: Is there a middle way on hunting?
As the six-month public consultation on hunting with hounds draws to a close, East Midlands
Conservative MEP Roger Helmer explains he is against a ban and Chris Williamson, leader of Derby
City Council and executive member of the League Against Cruel Sports, explains why he is for a ban.
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=64361&command=displayContent&s....
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Manchester News: Campaigners stoke flames of discontent
Thousands of countryside campaigners lit up north west skies to send a "summer of
discontent" warning to the government. More than 100 bonfires blazed in Lancashire, Cheshire,
and Derbyshire as part of a 2,000-strong chain of beacons across the country.
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/stories/Detail_LinkStory=19673.html
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Manchester News: Hunt man's plea on ban threat
Vinnie, a member of the Sharston lurcher and terrier club, said: "People think the ban on
hunting is just about fox-hunting. It is not - it will ban people like me who catch rabbits.
"Some people say what I do is cruel. But I am a true animal lover. I used to work as a dog
warden and worked very closely with the RSPCA. I have seen true animal cruelty and I have actually
been injured myself in the defence of animals.
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/stories/Detail_LinkStory=19973.html
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Guardian: Another country
Leader. There is absolutely no doubt that they are widespread and passionately held feelings, and
no government should allow grievances to continue to fester in this way. Mr Blair needs to reflect
and respond. He should not pretend that the mood will just go away or be easily mollified. But he
needs a strategy. This morning's ICM poll should be enough to concentrate his mind on that.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,797609,00.html
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Times: It's a short trip from Pink Floyd to hunting pink
Roger Waters. "After the Berlin Wall came down, I stood in front of 350,000 people in the
Potsdamer Platz and performed The Wall. In many ways, the Whip Craic fundraising concert this week
is just as symbolic."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-444341,00.html
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Telegraph: Hunting protest masks deeper divisions
Robert Uhlig, farming correspondent. FMD was the turning point: almost a year since the last of
2,030 outbreaks of foot and mouth was recorded, little appears to have been done to address the
most likely cause of the epidemic. Only two sniffer dogs and a poster campaign have been employed
to stem the illegal meat imports still flooding into the country.
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/16/nhunt16.xml
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Telegraph: Prisoners of the hunting war
W.F. Deedes. A fox chased by hounds and, if caught, suffering instant death is unacceptable because
the fox is being pursued by the wrong sort of people. A fox flushed from its cover by dogs, shot
at, perhaps wounded and suffering a lingering death is acceptable because the execution is being
carried out, at least in Labour's eyes, by the right sort of people.
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/16/nhunt116.xml
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Economist: Riding for a fall
Foxhunting is already banned in Scotland, but because of the pest control loophole the hunts
continue pretty much as before.
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1337668
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Economist: Charge of the green welly brigade
Balancing the depression in agriculture and the aftermath of the government's disastrous handling
of the foot-and-mouth outbreak last year with the advantages of living in the countryside.
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1337410
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Economist: Why the countryside is angry
Rural people say they want "liberty and livelihood" from the government. They can't have
both.
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1337315
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Country Life: Countryside March
News, features, interviews and commentary on the Liberty and Livelihood March. Photos, video clips,
e-cards and forum.
http://www.countrylife.co.uk/home_march.htm
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Sunday Times: Focus: Shooting a hole in the law
Mark Macaskill. On August 3 the first hunt under the new law set out with eight armed gamekeepers
and 30 hounds. 11 foxes were killed as they fled from the cover of woodland, pursued by hounds into
the path of waiting guns, as the cull is no longer selective.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-430331,00.html
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Sunday Times: Senior police defy minister by insisting hunting is legal
Mark Macaskill. Scotland's most senior police officers have ruled that foxhunting is still legal if
they are doing genuine pest control work.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-430273,00.html
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This is Worcestershire: Luff: We will burn the lies of the PM
Fifty beacons were set alight across Worcestershire to mark the official start of the Countryside
Alliance's Liberty & Livelihood campaign. Mid-Worcestershire MP Peter Luff, a founding member
of the Middle Way Group, applied the blazing torch to the one at Whittington and said a few words.
http://www.thisisworcestershire.co.uk/worcestershire/archive/2002/09/17/wen_news_latest16ZM.html
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This is London: Intolerance that made me march
Kate Hoey, Labour MP. Tony Blair is the Prime Minister who vowed to build a tolerant nation free
from prejudice. It is a shame he doesn't seem to include the countryside as part of this nation.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/1277212
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Telegraph: Estate owners vow to defy ban on hunting
David Harrison, environment correspondent. The landowners, who lead hunts on their own estates,
told The Telegraph yesterday that they would join the growing rebellion against the Government's
proposed ban.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;?xml=/news/2002/09/15/nhunt115.xml
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Telegraph: Hunt ban will end in chaos, say police
David Bamber, home affairs correspondent. The Government's plans to ban or restrict hunting with
hounds would cause chaos in rural areas and put an unacceptable strain on the police, senior
officers are warning ministers, due to the practicalities of prioritising and enforcing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/15/nhunt15.xml
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Telegraph: There is no third way in the hunting debate
Leo McKinstry. Potential problems with a regulatory system for hunting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/09/15/do1502.xml
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Independent: Blair strikes conciliatory tone with peace gesture to rural lobby
Ben Russell, political correspondent. Tony Blair drew back from the aggressive tone of Alun
Michael's response to Sunday's huge protest by the Countryside Alliance, urging John Jackson to
join the Government's Rural Affairs Forum due to take place at Spalding, Lincolnshire, on Saturday,
9 November.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=337373
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Telegraph: Ignore marchers' anger at your peril, Mr Blair
David Harrison, environment correspondent. The government's chief adviser on the countryside, Ewen
Cameron of the Countryside Agency, will warn Tony Blair this week that rural frustration will spill
into civil disobedience if he ignores concerns raised during the Liberty and Livelihood march in
London.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/29/nhunt29.xml
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Telegraph: Britain evenly split on foxhunting
David Derbyshire. While 50 per cent of the people questioned in a Telegraph/YouGov poll believed
that hunting should be criminalised, 48 per cent favoured tighter regulations or keeping the status
quo. (Links to three additional stories on the same day.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/28/nhunt28.xml
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Times: Pro-hunt activists plan disruption at Labour conference
Valerie Elliott, countryside editor. Buoyed by the success of the countryside march, which turned
out to be the biggest civil liberties march in British history, hardline protesters are anxious to
keep up the pressure on the Government.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-425308,00.html
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Times: Next step
Leader. As it has taken a number of steps in the wrong direction already, it would be politically
impossible (although desirable) for the Government to announce that it was withdrawing its
legislation on hunting. The best that can be done would be for the House of Commons to opt for
modest regulation of the pastime and not outright prohibition.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-424067,00.html
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Times: Hunting ban and human rights
Letter to the Editor from the Director of Liberty, the group who introduced the Human Rights Act
1998 which came into force in Ocotber 2000. Suggests a new right needs to be added: the right to
engage in any peaceful activity unless there is a legitimate reason to prevent it.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-427230,00.html
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Times: Foxed - by my daughter
Mary Ann Sieghart. Author debatea the chain of predation, whether animals should have equal rights
to human beings, whether wasps were as deserving of good treatment as foxes, and what liberties a
government should curtail in a free country as she marches with her 11-year-old daughter.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-425698,00.html
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Times: Hunting not the only country issue
Letter to the Editor from Richard Burge, Chief Executive of The Countryside Alliance in response to
Nick Palmer, MP.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-428171,00.html
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Telegraph: A march against bad law
Leader. It is a conservative case - that long-established traditions should be respected - and a
liberal case - that activities of which we may not approve should nevertheless be tolerated. The
question here is not, "What do you think of hunting?" but, "What do you think of a
ban on hunting?"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/09/14/dl1401.xml
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New York Times: Blood Sport as Politics
John Mortimer, attorney and author of the Horace Rumpole stories. There is no worse tyranny, wrote
John Stuart Mill, than that of a majority. The test of democracy is not that the majority should
always get its way but how far minorities are respected. Will fox hunting be saved? Our best hope
is to get President Bush to put on a pink coat and chase a fox; no doubt Tony Blair would fall
right in behind him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/opinion/24MORT.html
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Times: The hunting debate is about much more than foxes - it is about our freedom
Mick Hume. As the Government holds an unprecedented three-day hearing at Westminster into whether
or not hunting foxes with hounds is necessary or cruel, the author sees confirmation that,
whatever the international situation, we appear to be beating a retreat from the standards of a
free and democratic society on the home front.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-408620,00.html
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CNN.com: Hunters march to protect tradition
More than 280,000 campaigners are expected to join a countryside rights march in Britain's capital
demanding their traditions are protected.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/09/20/uk.country/index.html
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BBC: Disease fox numbers disputed
A study claiming fox numbers were not influenced by a hunting ban during the foot-and-mouth
outbreak last year is disputed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2236915.stm
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BBC Newsnight: Fox Hunting
New research to be published in the magazine Nature purports to show that banning hunting will have
no significant impact on fox numbers. Gavin Esler was joined by Simon Hart of the Countryside
Alliance and Dr Rob Atkinson of the RSPCA which paid for the research. Transcript plus audio clip.
[RealPlayer]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/archive/2239475.stm
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BBC: Hunt plans ready 'in weeks'
With the end of the public hearings in London, proposals designed to help MPs resolve their
disputes over hunting with dogs will be unveiled "in a matter of weeks" according to Alun
Michael.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2252176.stm
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BBC Breakfast: Countryside in crisis?
The message that the British countryside is in crisis is one which is often repeated - but how true
is it? Watch video case studies plua a Forum in which Dave Ward from the League against Cruel
Sports and Mal Treharne from the Countryside Alliance debate the issue. [RealPlayer]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/2266127.stm
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BBC Breakfast: Fox hunting debate
The programme has been looking at the concerns of those who live and work in the country all week.
Monday focused on the decline of rural services, Tuesday was the impact of cheap imports on British
farmers. Thursday was the farmers' complaints against supermarkets. Friday, a special Online forum
on fox hunting and the rural way of life, plus a video interview with Mike Hobday and Simon Hart.
[RealPlayer]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/2268897.stm
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BBC: Hunting debate begins far from countryside
Campaigners for and against hunting with dogs give evidence at a three-day public hearing in London
which will pave the way for legislation. Audio clip.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2245728.stm
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BBC: Hunting debate sparks war of words
The Countryside Alliance clashes with the RSPCA over a future hunt ban, as both sides listen to
evidence on the second day of a public hearing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2248093.stm
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BBC: Capital set for 'biggest ever' march
Organisers of the rural Liberty and Livelihood march in London on Sunday say they expect a turnout
of at least 250,000 people.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2269021.stm
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Independent on Sunday: Pro-hunt activists to target roads, Parliament and sporting events
Severin Carrell. Splinter groups from the Countryside Alliance describe possible future actions if
the government ignores their concerns.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=331489
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Independent on Sunday: Review biased in favour of status quo, say opponents
Jo Dillon, political correspondent. Anti-hunt campaigners have complained to Alun Michael that his
planned consultation process favours the pro-hunt lobby. Pro-hunting groups have complained that
any Government Bill will be amended and pushed through both Houses of Parliament to ensure an
absolute ban.
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=331490
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Independent: Meeting of minds needed before fox hunting decision, warns peer
Marie Woolf, chief political correspondent. In the first day of public hearings, Lord Burns urged
MPs not to act without public support and urged caution in framing a law on the future of fox
hunting.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=331995
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Independent: The cruelty of this tedious debate over fox-hunting
Leader. Fox-hunting is a curious and rather unsavoury pastime, but that is not cause for a ban.
There are far more pressing animal welfare issues, such as battery farming and experimentation on
primates. Where cruelty is found in field sports, there are already laws to deal with it. Far
better that there be no ban on hunting, than a fudged middle way, whose only true motive is
political guile.
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=331935
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Independent: Hunting Bill may allow 'opt-outs'
Marie Woolf, chief political correspondent. Alun Michael, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
minister responsible for drawing up the Bill, said he was interested by proposals to allow local
circumstances to be judged against the standard of a national law.
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=332527
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Independent on Sunday: John Jackson: The City gent who is about to invade London
Simon O'Hagan. Interview and biography of the chairman of the Countryside Alliance.
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=333422
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Independent on Sunday: Minister's aides are pro-hunt campaigners
Jo Dillon, political correspondent. Concerns and conjectures about how the final Government Bill
and voting will play out.
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=333421
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Independent: Rural problems are too diverse for one march
Andreas Whittam Smith. "Liberty" clearly means freedom to hunt. Under
"livelihood" come five themes: the protection of communities, culture, values, customs
and children's futures, as dear to ethnic communities as to rural.
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=333670
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Independent: Why you won't see me marching for my countryside
Richard Askwith. The only case for banning hunting is a moral one, and governments should not
legislate exclusively for the moral wellbeing of the governed. That way, tyranny lies; especially
if the moral legislation is guided, as in this case, by class hatred. (If it isn't, why aren't we
banning angling?)
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=334313
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Independent: Tales of the Country: Am I marching?
Brian Viner. A newcomer to Herefordshire describes his new life and why he can't get worked up
enough to march with his neighbours.
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=334527
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Independent : Cold comfort farm
David Aaronovitch. A visit with a boyhood friend in Shropshire who describes what he does to
survive and why he supports the March. (Links to two additional stories on the same day.)
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=334800
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Independent: This Europe: Environmentalists tilt their lances at boar hunting in Andalusia
Elizabeth Nash in Madrid. Inspired by Britain's anti-hunting campaign, Spanish environmentalists
are calling for a ban on the traditional hunting of wild boar in Spain's Coto Doñana national
park.
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=335159
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Independent: A long march away from liberty and livelihood
Leader. Why the newspaper supports hunting but not the demands to preserve the countryside's
"way of life". (Links to three other stories on the same day.)
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=335136
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BBC: Public schools join countryside march
Top public schools are allowing their boarders to travel to this weekend's countryside march in
London but Prince Harry will not be among them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2263519.stm
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BBC: Pro-hunt beacons lit up
Beacons start a week of protests by countryside campaigners.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2262912.stm
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Times: All those anti-hunt protesters should burger off
Simon Barnes. Why a vegetarian non-hunter finds cruelty distressing but hypocrisy loathsome.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-418076,00.html
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Times: Boarders given nod to join march
Valerie Elliott, countryside editor. Student groups will be joining Sunday's March.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-418199,00.html
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Telegraph: 'Something must be done. Rural life is eroding away'
Robert Uhlig, farming correspondent. Marchers will be protesting the deterioration of housing,
schools, post offices, shops and public transport as well as the possibility of a ban on hunting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/17/nhunt117.xml
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Telegraph: Blazing beacons start the protest
Nicola Woolcock. Monday night's beacons, bonfires and rockets from Land's End to Scotland marked
the start of a week of activity.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/17/nhunt17.xml
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Guardian: Hunters get fired up for march on London
Tania Branigan. The international rocket relay fires off the buildup to the March on Sunday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,793639,00.html
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Times: Tribunals may rule on right to hunt
Valerie Elliott, countryside editor. Alun Michael, the Rural Affairs Minister, is considering local
tribunals to oversee hunting. Hunts could apply for permission to hunt for the purposes of pest or
population control, and possibly social and economic reasons.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,173-411928,00.html
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Sunday Times: I'm willing to risk jail for foxhunting
Otis Ferry. The son of rock star Bryan Ferry explains why he believes so passionately in the
countryside way of life, including hunting.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,176-415109,00.html
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Sunday Times: Focus: Country strife
Jonathan Lewis. Explains the importance and possible impacts of the countryside march for
countryside protestors and the government.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-415879,00.html
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Times: Hunt hotheads plan disruptive action
Valerie Elliott, countryside editor. Civil disobedience by the Real Countryside Alliance is
expected to follow any government announcement to ban hunting.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-417039,00.html
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Times: Blair goes to the country to woo angry rural voters
Valerie Elliott and Melissa Kite. Mr Blair has agreed that Ewen Cameron, the Government's rural
advocate, should join next Sunday's countryside march to listen to the wider grievances of country
people.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,170-417041,00.html
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Times: Country grievances
Leader. Mr Blair should pay close attention that the countryside marchers have rural grievances
beyond hunting.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-416991,00.html
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Guardian: Country alliance lays down gauntlet
Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. Views on the upcoming public hearings by
participants.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,787627,00.html
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Telegraph: Hunting ban will not lead to fox boom, says study
Roger Highfield. Prof Harris, chairman, says the Mammal Society has made the first scientific study
into the impact of hunting on fox numbers and it shows that hunting plays no role in regulating fox
numbers and indeed all forms of fox culling are less important than hitherto believed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/05/nhunts05.xml
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Guardian: Hunting ban did not lead to fox increase
James Meek. Stephen Harris's research for the IFAW and RSPCA claims that foxes regulate their own
numbers and therefore hunting is unnecessary. The Countryside Alliance claims the research is
flawed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,786096,00.html
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BBC: Hunt ban left foxes 'unaffected'
Helen Briggs. Stephen Harris claims the hunting ban during the UK's foot-and-mouth outbreak had
little impact on fox numbersm which is totally at odds with what the Countryside Alliance, National
Farmers' Union and farmers have actually been seeing on the ground.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2235775.stm
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The Mammal Society: British hunting ban had no effect on fox numbers
Stephen Harris. Research report for The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and
The International Fund for Animal Welfare from The Mammal Society (Dr Philip Baker, Professor
Stephen Harris and Ms Charlotte Webbon).
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal/fox_hunting_report.htm
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Nature: No fox boom after ban
John Whitfield. Overview of Stephen Harris's research claiming that fox numbers regulate themselves
by causes such as starvation, making hunting unnecessary. Opposing views on the research are
provided by Jonathan Reynolds. Link to full research article.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020902/020902-4.html
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Telegraph: Saboteurs target hunt supporters' homes
Matt Born. The Urban Alliance published the addresses and telephone numbers on their web site of
more than a hundred prominent hunting supporters encouraging protesters to "target" them
where they live.
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