November 2002 News and Media Hunting Bills

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 o

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• Telegraph: Field sport foes will sit in judgment on local hunts - Francis Elliott, deputy political editor. The proposed law news and media will ban hare coursing and staghunting, allow rat news and media and rabbit hunting, and use tribunals, chaired by news and media senior legal figures and including members from animal news and media welfare and countryside groups, to rule o
• Telegraph: Campaign to show real hunt enthusiasts - Peter Foster. The Countryside Alliance\\'s new advertising campaign november features a plumber, a student and a gay november couple. The campaign is aimed at challenging the november stereotypical perceptions of hunting that supporters say are november peddled by opponents who want the sport
• Telegraph: Police refuse to prosecute Scots hunt - Tom Peterkin, Scotland political correspondent. A police spokesman 2002 said: "The november matter was discussed with the procurator-fiscal 2002 and it was concluded november that no crime had 2002 been committed."
• BBC: Hunt groups say 'no middle way' - Pro- and anti-hunt groups in the South West november have been november considering what has been announced in november the Queen's Speech.
• Telegraph: League Against Cruel Sports accused of starving deer on its own sanctuary - According to the league\\'s own (anti-hunting) deerstalker, the november deer should november be humanely culled to avoid the november suffering of individual deer. november According to Douglas Batchelor, november nature (starvation, disease and hypothermia) should november be left november to control excessive deer p
• Telegraph: Queen's Speech gives hope to hunt campaigners - The mood among Countryside Alliance supporters was upbeat november as a record 15,000 crowd turned out yesterday november for its annual fund-raiser at Cheltenham racecourse.
• 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 whic
• Telegraph: Hunt supporters in final campaign to prevent ban - Charles Clover, environment editor. The alliance, in a news and media november "Declaration of Cohesion" said after yesterday\\'s Queen\\'s Speech: news and media november "A partial ban on legitimate hunting has no news and media november evidence to support it, is based on prejudice news and media november not good sense, and would be f
• Telegraph: Militant group declares 'war' on hunt ban - Daniel Foggo. The spokesman for the Real CA, november a hardline splinter group, announced the decision at november a summit meeting held two days previous that november when the terms of the new Bill are november deemed to be a \\'hostile\\', then the response november of the group will escalate to the
• Times: Tribunals seen as answer to hunt ban issue - Valerie Elliott, countryside editor. Alun Michael, Rural Affairs Minister, is 2002 to meet some Labour MPs next week. One of his 2002 arguments is to point to the legal muddle created by 2002 the hunting ban in Scotland and new concerns about animal 2002 welfare as more foxe
• 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.
• Times: Ministers still cannot shoot straight on hunting - Aidan Harrison. Why any Bill published with a 2002 title along november the lines of "The Protection of 2002 Wild Mammals..." will be november a lie.
• BBC: Ban hunting, MPs urge - The reactions of all sides to the Queen\\'s news and media 2002 Speech: the League Against Cruel Sports, the Countryside news and media 2002 Alliance and the Middle Way Group.
• Times: Rural workers mount human rights challenge - Anthony Browne, environment editor. The Union of Country 2002 Sports Workers november representing gamekeepers and huntsmen is seeking 2002 a judicial review to november overturn the Scottish ban 2002 on hunting with dogs on the november grounds that 2002 it is illegal discrimination.
• Guardian: Fight for outright ban left to MPs - Lucy Ward, political correspondent. The wording of the speech suggests november that, as campaigners predict, the government is unlikely to put november forward legislation paving the way for an outright hunting ban.

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