December 2003 News and Media Hunting Bills

A Devon huntsman has amassed £2m in pledges to bring a defamation legal action against those who claim that hunting is cruel.

• BBC News Wales: Crowds turn out for hunts - There were concerns that if pro-hunters carried out threats of news and media defying any ban put in place, it could lead to news and media conflict with police similar to the clashes seen during the news and media 1980s miners\\' strike. More than 3,000 people in Wales have news and media so far signed a declaratio
• Western Mail: Act of barbarity, or valuable service? - Paul Carey. A hunt master (Dai Jones, 40, 2003 master of Carmarthenshire Hunt) and an anti-hunt campaigner 2003 (Ralph Cook, 44, from St Mellons, Cardiff, chairman 2003 of the Wales Alliance Against Cruel Sports) give 2003 their views on Boxing Day hunts.
• Telegraph: The hunt will meet for years to come - Nick Herbert. Gives the history of efforts to news and media december ban hunting and the current positions of the news and media december public, the joint parliamentary committee on human rights, news and media december hunt supporters who have signed the declaration of news and media december non-compliance and the police who will have to news and media december enforce
• BBC News: Huntsman to fight cruel claim - A Devon huntsman has amassed £2m in pledges to bring a defamation legal action against those who claim that hunting is cruel.
• Telegraph: Public give Bill low priority - Graham Tibbetts. Only two per cent of people 2003 believe foxhunting news and media should be a Government priority, according 2003 to a NOP poll news and media released today. Of those 2003 questioned, just one in 50 said news and media that Labour 2003 should concentrate on introducing the hunting Bill.
• ABC News: Fox hunters pack out English fields despite ban threat. - AFP. Fox hunting enthusiasts are out in force 2003 for the Boxing Day hunt, the biggest day 2003 in the blood sport\\'s calendar, hoping that the 2003 British Government\\'s determination to ban the pastime will 2003 falter. Australia.
• USA Today: British fox hunters, protesters face off over Boxing Day hunts - Thousands of scarlet-clad fox hunters rode out Friday news and media for traditional post-Christmas hunts, defying the boos and news and media jeers of protesters demanding an end to blood news and media sports. USA.
• BBC News: Boxing Day hunters defy protests - Thousands of hunt supporters defy angry protests to 2003 take part 2003 in what could be the last 2003 ever Boxing Day meetings. 2003 Or not.
• BBC News: Put NHS before hunting, poll says - Only one out of every 50 Britons think banning or curtailing hunting with dogs should be a government priority, a poll of 1,000 people suggests.
• Telegraph: Fox Dundee - Leader. Compares crocodiles as a protected species in 2003 Australia\\'s Northern december Territories with a ban on hunting 2003 foxes.
• Spiked: Phoney rebellions against Blair's empty policies - Mick Hume. "Listening to the supposedly great debates dominating British politics today, with the threatened rebellions by Labour MPs over top-up fees or foundation hospitals, I am tempted to say: bring back the foxhunting debate!"
• Guardian: This year, the day belonged to the hounds - Martin Wainwright. Yesterday belonged to hunt supporters at news and media december the Badsworth\\'s traditional Boxing Day meet in Wentbridge, news and media december part of the girdle of farms and parkland news and media december round the mining towns of Pontefract and Hemsworth. news and media december Followers and largely friendly sightseers o
• Guardian: New row on legality of forcing hunt ban - Sarah Hall. A row broke out yesterday over 2003 whether the december government will be able to use 2003 the Parliament Act to december push through a ban 2003 on hunting. According to Stephen Pound, december Labour MP, 2003 "It absolutely the one single visceral issue for december 2003 Labour backbenchers whe
• BBC News: Hunting issue 'will be resolved' - Responding to a question at Prime Minister\\'s Questions, news and media news and media Mr Blair said: "As I said before ... news and media news and media we will resolve it this parliament."
• Telegraph: Hunts claim a record turnout by supporters - Hunt supporters claimed a moral victory yesterday with 2003 an unprecedented december turnout for the Boxing Day meets, 2003 10% higher than last december year and dwarfing the 2003 numbers in opposition, and with little december or no 2003 disruption from protesters.
• The Sun: 275,000 rally to foxhunts - Lucy Hagan. Hunt supporters and protesters were out in force 2003 yesterday. Comments from a hunt master, a rider and a 2003 hunt secretary. Photos of a young rider and a young 2003 protestor.
• Telegraph: Cruelty ban plan to test anti-hunt MPs - Benedict Brogan, political correspondent. Lord Donoughue, the former news and media news and media Labour minister, and Lembit Opik, the Liberal Democrat news and media news and media MP, will introduce a private Bill to ban news and media news and media all cruelty to wild mammals.

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