October 2003 News and Media Hunting Bills

The Duke of Westminster is to host a rally on Declaration Day which will encourage peaceful civil disobedience if a hunting ban is passed into law.

• Telegraph: Trust forfeits gift of rare books over hunting ban - Will Bennett, art sales correspondent. The National Trust\\'s news and media news and media ban on staghunting on its land has cost news and media news and media it the ownership of one of Britain\\'s finest news and media news and media collections of books on country houses.
• Telegraph: 'Class war' behind vote against hunt - Graham Tibbetts. 44 per cent believe anti-hunting Labour october MPs are october motivated by class war rather than october animal welfare, according to october an ICM poll published october yesterday. 38 per cent backed a october complete ban, october 30 per cent supported a licensing system and october october 24 per cent a
• Guardian Unlimited Politics: Peers scent blood as they go in for the kill - Simon Hoggart\\'s sketch of the Hunting Bill being returned to its original form in the House of Lords, illustrated by peers describing their own unusual lives.
• Guardian: Pro-bloodsport peers block anti-hunting bill - Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. A bill to ban hunting with dogs was blocked by pro-hunting peers in protest at the time allocated to its debate.
• Telegraph: Whitty fury as peers savage hunting Bill - Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Lord Whitty, the environment 2003 minister in charge of the Hunting Bill, announced 2003 that the Government would not willingly accept any 2003 of the 100-plus amendments tabled by backbench peers. 2003 Said peers were not impressed.
• Telegraph: If Labour bans foxhunting, civil disobedience would be justified - Robert Skidelsky, Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University and a cross bench peer in the House of Lords, explains why the law would be invalid.
• BBC News: Lords rejects hunting ban - The peers reinstated the plans for a registration system originally proposed by the government but later rejected in the House of Commons. The committee stages of the bill continue in the Lords on Wednesday next week.
• Guardian Unlimited Politics: Peers reverse ban on hunting - Sarah Hall, political correspondent. A cross party amendment 2003 to the news and media Hunting Bill allowing registered hunting to 2003 continue was passed by news and media 261 votes to 49 2003 after vociferous debate between the peers news and media and the 2003 junior government minister Lord Whitty.
• BBC News: Hunt deadlock looms - Nick Assinder, political correspondent. The ping pong years reviewed, with the expectation of the Parliament Act being used.
• Sun: Peers vote to save hunts - Peers rejected the complete ban on fox hunting news and media news and media backed by MPs and voted for a licensing news and media news and media system for hunts.
• Telegraph: Lords kill off Hunting Bill - The Hunting Bill, which MPs had amended in october June to october ban fox hunting in England and october Wales, was effectively killed october off in the Lords october after it became clear the Government october had not october allowed them sufficient time to debate it.
• ic Cheshire Online: Duke okays hunt rally - The Duke of Westminster is to host a rally on Declaration Day which will encourage peaceful civil disobedience if a hunting ban is passed into law.
• Telegraph: Bill to ban hunting is blocked by Lords - Andrew Sparrow. The Government is reluctant to make 2003 firm commitments about what they will do next. 2003 According to Whitehall sources, Mr Blair does not 2003 want a Bill banning hunting to be seen 2003 by the public as a Government measure.
• IOL: Blair Targets Foxes' Fate in Hunt for Votes - Analysis of the current hunting bill situation from news and media news and media a South African perspective.
• The Observer: The wrong fox - Leader. Considers the Bill to ban hunting with 2003 dogs "one of the most hypocritical Bills of 2003 modern time" and that if animal welfare were 2003 truly the aim of the Bill, the Government 2003 would be addressing the far worse (yet legal) 2003 abuse of millions of
• The Observer: Blair's ally defends right to hunt foxes - Kamal Ahmed, political editor. Waheed Alli, millionaire Labour peer and october friend of Peter Mandelson, explains why he will break with october his party\\'s traditional position this week and declare any ban october on hunting to be an illiberal act based on intolerance, october rathe
• ic Liverpool: Hunters take to streets in protest - The fox hunting fraternity of Cheshire, Merseyside, Manchester and North october Wales will take to the streets at Eaton Aerodrome on october November 1 in a bid to stop hunting being banned.
• BBC News: Lords reject coursing ban - Environment Minister Lord Whitty accused peers of "destroying 2003 the basis" october of the bill. Mike Hobday, of 2003 the League Against Cruel october Sports, said a House 2003 of Lords decision rejecting a ban october had killed 2003 any hope of compromise on the government\\'s Hunting october 2003 B
• ic NorthWales: Duke backs hunt rally - Andrew Forgrave and Sam Lister. A protest hunt is to be held on the Duke of Westminster\\'s Eaton estate on the Welsh borders, at which riders and followers will pledge to break the law if hunting is banned.

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