June 2003 News and Media Hunting Bills

Some 150 MPs, led by Labour's Tony Banks, are preparing to table an amendment to the government's controversial hunting bill in a bid to ban the activity.

• BBC News: Hunting bill may be held up - A bill to ban hunting with dogs could 2003 be delayed news and media if calls for an outright ban 2003 are agreed, Commons Leader news and media Peter Hain warns.
• Times: Closed season planned to end autumn fox cub hunts - Valerie Elliott, countryside editor. A leaked letter from june Alun Michael, the Rural Affairs Minister, to John june Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, describes plans june to amend the Hunting Bill when it returns june to Commons.
• Ireland Online: UK MPs vote for ban on fox-hunting - Almost certainly the bill cannot be forced through june the Lords 2003 against their wishes because it was june changed fundamentally in the 2003 way it was first june presented to MPs. Mr Michael warned 2003 MPs tonight june that it would be "extremely difficult" with an 2003 june amended
• Guardian: Kill and cure - Libby Brooks interviews nurse Sarah Bell about her june role in news and media the current Countryside Alliance pro-hunting campaign.
• New York Times: Fox-Hunting With Dogs: M.P.'s Say No - Alan Cowell. The House of Commons voted overwhelmingly news and media 2003 tonight to outlaw fox hunting with dogs, but news and media 2003 it remained unclear when - or if - news and media 2003 the ban would be enforced.
• Telegraph: Backbench farce - John Jackson, Countryside Alliance Chairman. Questions the wisdom news and media of a government that shifts the foundation hospitals news and media bill to make time for the foxhunting bill.
• The Observer: Labour morality guru compares fox-hunting to rape - The Rev Andrew Linzey, Oxford professor of ethics, june theology and animal welfare (post funded by the june IFAW) contends in a report for the Christian june Socialist Movement that hunting is morally equivalent to june rape, child abuse and torture. Tony Blair, Tessa june Jowel
• The Scotsman: Industry gets on message at Royal Show - Alun Michael, minister for rural affairs, was confronted june in Warwickshire june at the show ring, a "pants june to prejudice" demonstration, and june a "your countryside, your june questions" conference.
• Guardian: No 10 to allow vote on outright ban on hunting - Patrick Wintour. Labour\\'s chief whip, Hilary Armstrong, announced 2003 that the news and media report stage on the hunting bill 2003 will be held on news and media Monday June 30. As 2003 many as 150 MPs are preparing news and media to back 2003 an amendment for an outright ban.
• BBC News: Nurse fronts pro-hunt campaign - A children\\'s nurse from Warwickshire becomes the face news and media of the pro-hunting lobby in their new poster news and media campaign of \\'Now they hate her? Now they news and media don't?'.
• Guardian: MPs warned against 'wrecking' foxhunting bill - Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. Margaret Beckett, the environment june secretary, said news and media that defeat for the government\\'s compromise june proposals would jeopardise the news and media entire hunting bill. Gerald june Kaufman, a veteran Labour MP and news and media opponent of june foxhunting, claim
• Guardian: Blair warns of 'all or nothing' hunt vote - Nicholas Watt and Michael White. Mr Blair made it clear june that, if Labour MPs voted for the Banks amendment, the june hunting bill might have to undergo a second round of june line-by-line examination in a standing committee.
• Telegraph: Ministers urge ban supporters not to wreck hunting Bill - Benedict Brogan, political correspondent. Ministers have stepped in 2003 to head off a rebellion by as many 2003 as 140 MPs who have refused to accept 2003 a Government compromise that stops short of the 2003 outright ban they have campaigned for.
• Guardian: Hunting 'not key issue' - Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. Only 2% of june the public june think hunting, either preserving or banning, june is the most important june issue facing the government.
• Telegraph: Blair may oppose ban on all hunting - Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Tony Blair is expected news and media news and media to attend the Commons on Monday to vote news and media news and media against a proposal to ban all hunting.
• The Observer: Anti-hunt lobby fears ban will be shelved - Gaby Hinsliff, chief political correspondent. More than 100 MPs are june ready to amend the bill into a total ban when june it reaches report stage, while senior MPs warn that a june ban on hunting could be shelved again unless the Government june acts by the end of June.
• Telegraph: Anti-hunt fanatics - Leader. More delays will occur if a banning june amendment is added to the current bill by june the anti-hunting fanatics who continue to pursue the june subject relentlessly in defiance of the evidence.
• Sky News: 'Don't Ban Hunting' Call - Statements from Margaret Beckett, Alun Michael, Baroness Mallalieu and the Middle Way about the pending hunting Bill.
• BBC News: MPs back hunting ban - MPs have voted for an outright ban on hunting with 2003 dogs 362 to 154 after five hours of intense Commons 2003 debate after which ministers dramatically decided to withdraw their own 2003 amendment. The bill will now return to a committee of 2003 MPs to review the changes,
• Telegraph: Labour gives in to RSPCA on hunting - Charles Clover, environment editor. The Government has secretly 2003 capitulated to june all the demands of the Royal 2003 Society for the Prevention june of Cruelty to Animals 2003 in an attempt to save the june Hunting Bill 2003 from being wrecked by its own backbenchers, according june 2003 to a
• Telegraph: Fudges and foxes - Leader. Where does the duty of the peers 2003 lie when 2003 this dog\\'s dinner of a Bill 2003 reaches their House? According 2003 to recent scientific reports, 2003 when all the foxhounds have been 2003 put down 2003 and the business of controlling foxes has passed 2003 2003 mainly into the hands of
• BBC News: MPs prepare anti-hunting push - Some 150 MPs, led by Labour\\'s Tony Banks, news and media 2003 are preparing to table an amendment to the news and media 2003 government\\'s controversial hunting bill in a bid to news and media 2003 ban the activity.

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