November 2003 News and Media Hunting Bills

Organisers said 37,000 protesters at 11 rallies on Saturday and one on Friday, to mark the first day of the new hunting season, signed a pledge to ignore any ban. Includes video clip.

• BBC News: Speculation mounts on hunting ban - Speculation is mounting about whether Tony Blair will take on 2003 the House of Lords and force through measures to outlaw 2003 fox hunting.
• BBC News: Q&A: Hunting Bill - Explanation of what may happen next in the 2003 move to 2003 ban hunting with dogs.
• BBC Breakfast with Frost: Peter Hain - Peter Hain said the government would force nothing through parliament, including a hunting bill, although they need to resolve the issue and end cruelty to animals.
• Guardian: Rules for rural dissidents - John Jackson, Chairman of the Countryside Alliance, replies november to David McKie's column about Gandhi's new disciples.
• Guardian: Blair urged to defy Lords and force through fox hunting ban - Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. Tony Blair is being told by cabinet ministers to risk a confrontation with the House of Lords by forcing through a ban on fox hunting in the next parliamentary session.
• BBC News: Hunt supporters defiant over ban - Organisers said 37,000 protesters at 11 rallies on news and media 2003 Saturday and one on Friday, to mark the news and media 2003 first day of the new hunting season, signed news and media 2003 a pledge to ignore any ban. Includes video news and media 2003 clip.
• Guardian Politics: Warfare between peers and commoners - Sarah Hall and Julian Glover. Using the Parliament november Act to override peers and force through a november hunting ban is certain to spark anger and november maybe resistance to legislation removing the remaining 92 november hereditary peers. Ministers will see any obstruction as november a dire
• Guardian: Outfoxed by Tony's carrot - Zoe Williams looks at the actions ministers and 2003 the MPs, the lack of ethical consistency in 2003 the banning of hunting, and the odd tradeoff 2003 of supporting a hunting ban for supporting foundation 2003 hospitals.
• Observer: Hunts open new season with pledge to defy ban - Mark Townsend. More than 60,000 attended protest meetings at a news and media dozen sites through out Britain, with the majority signing a news and media declaration to continue hunting and risk a criminal record if news and media Parliament passes a Bill banning foxhunting.
• Guardian: Cabinet weighs up tactics on hunting issue - Patrick Wintour. The cabinet will meet in a special session news and media today ahead of the Queen\\'s Speech with ministers yet to news and media decide whether they will use the Parliament Act to force news and media through a ban on hunting.
• Telegraph: Hunting 'beats a peerage' - Graham Tibbetts. Lord Mancroft spoke to thousands of countryside supporters november prepared to attend 12 mass meets today to demonstrate their november determination to flout any ban.
• Telegraph: Blair still ready to force ban on hunting - Benedict Brogan, political correspondent. Downing Street has until the Queen\\'s news and media Speech on Nov 26 to decide whether to introduce a news and media new Bill in the next session that could be forced news and media through using the Parliament Act if peers try to block news and media it.
• Guardian: Gandhi's new disciples - David McKie. Will the supporters of civil disobedience in the november face of an unfair law, including the pro-hunters, be happy november to apply the same principle to causes beside their own?
• Telegraph: Blair struck hunting deal to win health vote - Colin Brown and Francis Elliott. The Prime Minister and Peter Hain, in one-to-one meetings with some Labour MPs, promised to allow yet another hunting bill in order to stave off a humiliating defeat of Blair's foundation hospitals legislation.
• BBC News: Peers 'abused power on hunting' - Asked if the government planned to use the news and media news and media Parliament Act, Lord Falconer told BBC One\\'s Breakfast news and media news and media with Frost he could not reveal what would news and media news and media be in this month's Queen's Speech.
• Guardian: Fox hunt ban 'breaches human rights law' - Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. Reactions from government 2003 ministers on the ruling that plans to ban 2003 fox hunting breach European human rights law by 2003 failing to offer adequate compensation.
• Telegraph: Blair Backs Private Anti-Foxhunt Bill - George Jones, political editor. Peter Hain, Leader of the Commons, november yesterday promised "discussions" on ways of achieving a ban in november the face of renewed opposition from the House of Lords.
• News24.com: Hunters vow to defy ban - SA. Describes the history of the government\\'s hunting november bill and 2003 its change from regulation to complete november ban. South Africa.
• Telegraph: Jockeys risk prison over hunt ban - Graham Tibbetts. The National Hunt fraternity, including jockeys such as november Richard Johnson, is determined to protect foxhunting and its close november relation point-to-point, which acts as a "nursery" for racehorses, riders november and trainers.
• Telegraph: Blair vows to force through hunt ban - Colin Brown, political editor. Ministers confirmed last night news and media news and media that the Hunting Bill will be reintroduced in news and media news and media the next session of Parliament, and they plan news and media news and media to use the Parliament Act if necessary to news and media news and media force the measure through. Includes slideshow of the news and media news and media first
• Guardian: Sticking points - Debate still rages on whether the Parliament Act november can be news and media used to force through a ban november on hunting, while Downing news and media Street fears a showdown november with the Lords. It could be news and media reintroduced as november a private member's bill.

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