December 2002 News and Media Hunting Bills

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 registra

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• Observer: Pro-hunt militants plot blockade war - Mark Townsend. A concerted campaign of major disruption 2002 is being news and media planned by pro-hunt militants following last 2002 week\\'s protests outside Parliament, news and media although the Countryside Action 2002 Network is against any strategy that news and media involves violence 2002 and criminal damage.
• WalesOnline: Hunt campaigner predicts ban - Brian Davies lives in the United States and december organised donations december of more than £1m to the december Labour Party in 1997 december and a further £30,000 december from Mr Davies\\'s UK-based campaign, the december Political Animal december Lobby, before last year\\'s election. He predicted that december december the comprom
• New York Times: British Plan Would Spare Some Fox Hunting - Warren Hoge. For country dwellers who see their news and media 2002 concerns, communities and livelihoods being overshadowed by dominant news and media 2002 urban interests, the fox hunting issue has become news and media 2002 emblematic. The Countryside Alliance has cast its position news and media 2002 as one of protecting minority
• Guardian: Pink coats left dangling on a golden thread - Simon Hoggart. MP\\'s take advantage that Alun Michael\\'s 2002 Hunting Bill continues to allow rabbiting and ratting, 2002 and turn on Mr Michael.
• 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 registra
• Guardian: Hunting compromise woos Labour rebels - Nicholas Watt and Rebecca Allison. "The bill will 2002 end the 2002 sport of fox hunting because it 2002 will only be allowed 2002 as a form of 2002 pest control," one government source said. 2002 "You will 2002 only be allowed to hunt if you have 2002 2002 a pink jacket with Rentokil
• BBC News - Blair to woo anti-hunt MPs - The prime minister is reported to be planning to woo news and media anti-hunt MPs by making changes to a hunting bill which news and media could end the blood sport.
• Guardian: Pro-hunt protesters try to storm parliament - Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. The bill, the protests, the hopes 2002 of the government, the intentions of Labour backbenchers.
• Observer: Animal rights supporters to spy on hunts - Gaby Hinsliff, chief political correspondent. The Government admits 2002 the only 2002 way of telling whether rules have 2002 been broken will be 2002 by animal welfare workers, 2002 many of whom may have clashed 2002 with local 2002 hunts in the past, volunteering to follow meets 2002 2002 and spy
• Guardian: Boxing Day hunts and protests draw thousands - NOP found that 41% of voters supported a "middle way" december solution of regulating hunts that struck a "balance between civil december liberties and animal welfare". Mori found 80% of British people december thought hunting with dogs was cruel, but didn't ask
• BBC: Hunting debate attracts angry demo - The bill was given its second reading by 368 votes december to 155, but there was scant support for the proposals december from Labour backbenchers who are determined to ignore the principles december of utility and cruelty and amend it into a total december ban.
• WalesOnline: 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
• BBC: Boxing Day hunts reopen bitter debate - Annette Crosbie, the new president of the League december Against Cruel news and media Sports, explains why she backs anti-hunt december protesters: "You have to news and media make that kind of december gesture, because simple reason and logic news and media doesn\'t really december get you anywhere, which is what the Countryside
• Guardian: Hunt bill protest gathers pace - Anne Perkins, political correspondent. A significant minority of 2002 Labour backbenchers december are so angry that the government 2002 has backed off a december total ban, using the 2002 Parliament Act to force the legislation december through the 2002 Lords if necessary, that they will abstain on december 2002 t
• Guardian: New attempt to break hunting stalemate - Michael White, political editor. Senior ministers are still clinging to december the hope that a politically messy confrontation can be avoided december between the pro- and anti-hunting lobbies as MPs prepare to december vote on the issue tonight for the sixth time since december 1997.
• Birmingham Post: Hunters vow to return - Shahid Naqvi. David Palmer, joint master of the december Worcestershire Hunt: news and media "The protesters are very welcome to december come and present their news and media view but they have december an outdated argument against what they news and media see as december the toffs enjoying themselves, which is just not news and media december true.&qu
• Guardian Politics: Full text: Commons statement on hunting - "Most people want to see cruelty prevented. They december also want 2002 farmers, gamekeepers and others who have december to manage the land 2002 to be able to december do so."
• 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 whe
• Guardian: Government hunts for a compromise - Michael White, political editor. If passed by both news and media Houses of Parliament, which are as divided as news and media the wider public, the hunting bill would ban news and media hare coursing and stag-hunting while protecting angling and news and media shooting as well as falconry. Ratting with terrier news and media pa
• WalesOnline: `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
• Scotland on Sunday: Hunts claim fox deaths soar after ban - Claire Gardner. The new Protection of Wild Mammals december Bill which 2002 allows hunting but insists on foxes december being shot rather than 2002 killed by hounds has december resulted in 250 dead foxes since 2002 August, compared december with 140 in 2000. Hunts also claim a 2002 december large number of foxes have
• Guardian: Year of the fox - Leader. The majority should not ride roughshod over december the minority. Few things are less attractive than december campaigners who are libertarian about everything except liberty.
• BBC: Head to head: New hunting proposals - Tim Lewin, a hunt master at the Ledbury news and media Hunt in Gloucestershire, and Josey Sharrad, fox hunting news and media campaigner for the Campaign for the Protection of news and media Hunted Animals, respond to plans to licence hunting news and media with dogs.
• Telegraph: Hook, line and sinker - Leader. Coarse fishing has no "utility" whatsoever and may cause december pain and distress to the fish. On the Michael test, december it is far less easy to justify than any foxhunting. december And it is done by two million people, most of december whom are Labour supporters. Th
• icWales: `Legislate on principle not on prejudice' - Leader from The Western Mail. The Minister for december Rural Affairs, Alun Michael, has yet to produce december evidence in any degree of the "incontrovertible evidence" december of deer and competitive hare coursing not meeting december such set criteria. Such alleged incontrove
• Telegraph: Jumping into a thicket - Leader. It is fair to say that, if december the principles of avoiding cruelty and recognising utility december that the Bill enunciates were pursued in good december faith by the proposed registrar, the great bulk december of hunts and most forms of hunting would december survive. That good faith i
• Observer Sport: Hare today, gone tomorrow - Will Buckley. Attending a coursing trial in East 2002 Anglis, the december author decides it is an acquired 2002 taste, not particularly for december him, but that is 2002 no reason to outlaw it.
• 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 gove
• WalesOnline: '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?
• The Scotsman: Something Missing on Boxing Day Hunts - Boxing Day hunts were held in Scotland despite news and media Mike Watson\\'s law, while LACS held its biggest news and media protest in Winslow, England. Actress Annette Crosbie, the news and media new president of the League, said: "Protesting is news and media unfortunate, but reason and logic doesn't get yo
• Telegraph: Cowardice and hypocrisy at the heart of Labour - Boris Johnson. The whole thing reeks of bullying and cowardice; news and media and, in that, the hunting Bill is consonant with almost news and media everything else that Labour does. If Labour had any principle news and media or logic, it would treat hunting the same as halal news and media butchery, and hares th
• 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.
• Guardian: Time trail - Timeline showing Labour\'s five year pursuit of hunting ban.

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