January 2001 News and Media Hunting Bills

Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. MPs last night endorsed overwhelmingly a total ban on fox hunting, paving the way for a confrontation with the Lords which will spill over into the general election campaign.

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• Telegraph - Pensioner is victim of hunt protest - David Sapsted
• Telegraph - Anti-hunt leader fights sacking - Charles Clover. Dr. Richard Ryder, a former chairman news and media january of the RSPCA, alleges unfair dismissal from the news and media january International Fund for Animal Welfare (USA), accusing them news and media january of contracting its operations in Britain, where it news and media january raises two thirds of its £33.3 million annu
• The Daily Telegraph - Calling off the hounds - Craig Brown.
• BBC: Would a hunt ban work? - Analysis of the difficulties in implementing a ban 2001 on hunting.
• Economist - Plato, Parliament and the British fox - Bagehot.
• Telegraph - Anti-hunt gang assaults couple in their home - Charles Clover, Environment Editor.
• Telegraph - Anti-hunt group told to scrap hare advert - Thomas Harding.
• Guardian - RSPCA wins right to bar pro-hunting activists - Jamie Wilson.
• Telegraph - MI5 called in as animal rights gang sends victim a nail-bomb - Philip Johnson, Home Affairs Editor.
• Observer - Good sport? - Laura Thompson.
• BBC - Minister avoids 'hunting' march - Environment Minister Michael Meacher pulls out of the 2001 march when news and media he discovers it supports hunting.
• Telegraph - Blair trip 'not ruse to dodge the issue' - Andy McSmith, chief political correspondent.
• BBC News - Bragg battles for hunting reprieve - Labour peer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg has launched a campaign 2001 to stop MPs from banning foxhunting.
• The Daily Telegraph - Hunt down the terrorists - Leader.
• BBC - Hunt supporters begin vote vigil - Includes audio interviews with Simon Hart (CA Campaign january for Hunting) news and media and Nicholas Jones (BBC). [RealPlayer]
• Guardian - In a field far from the Beaufort - Peter Hetherington.
• The Daily Telegraph - Don't lose the scent - Leader.
• NPR All Things Considered - Fox Hunting - Julie McCarthy in Cambridgeshire. RealPlayer. From National Public news and media january Radio, US.
• Telegraph - Enraged, endangered and out of luck - Neil Tweedie.
• Telegraph - Shooting and fishing are next, MPs told - Michael Kallenbach, parliamentary correspondent.
• Telegraph - The ALF is known for balaclava-clad henchmen - Richard Alleyne.
• Guardian - Little room for compromise as emotions run high over foxes - Patrick Wintour and Sarah Hall.
• Telegraph - Europeans fear hunt ban - David Brown, agriculture editor.
• Guardian - Hunting bill lobby - Audio interviews with pro- and anti-hunting protesters.
• BBC - Head to head: Foxhunting - Debate between Tony Banks MP and the Countryside Alliance\'s Richard Burge.
• The Daily Telegraph - Whatever Labour says, it can't pretend a ban is moral - Boris Johnson.
• Guardian: MPs vote for ban on fox hunting - Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. MPs last night endorsed overwhelmingly a total ban on fox hunting, paving the way for a confrontation with the Lords which will spill over into the general election campaign.
• Telegraph - I don't hunt, says victim of saboteurs - Neil Tweedie and Richard Alleyne.
• Telegraph - Hunt ban will harm country policing, say chiefs - John Steele, crime correspondent.
• spiked - Why hound hunters? - Mick Hume.
• Observer - What me, hunting? I'm just taking the dogs for a walk - Antony Barnett, public affairs editor.
• BBC - Long road to hunting ban - Nick Assinder.
• Guardian - To abolish the powers of the Lords would be a scandal - Hugo Young.

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