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Home / Regional / Europe / United Kingdom / Recreation and Sports / Sports / Country Sports / UK Hunting Bill 2001 / News and Media / 2002 / May
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- BBC: Hunt supporters begin vigil - Pro-hunt campaigners start a 24 hour vigil outside Parliament in London which is expected to last for several months.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1988000/1988444.stm
- Independent: Tony Blair: I have learned the limits of government - The Prime Minister states that the defining trait of the social democratic view of community is that it should be based on solidarity; looking out for each other and being tolerant of our differences.
argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=296834
- Telegraph Outdoors: Country diary: "townies" - RWF Poole. The problems with releasing urban foxes in the countryside and the possible involvement of the RSPCA.
www.telegraph.co.uk/outdoors/main.jhtml?xml=%2Foutdoors%2F2002%2F05%2F25%2Fopool25.xml
- Telegraph Outdoors: Country diary: showdown - RWF Poole. A meeting in the north-east of hunt supporters with Alun Michael of Defra.
www.telegraph.co.uk/outdoors/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=P8&targetRule=10&xml=%2Foutdoors%2F2002%2F05%2F04%2Fopool04.xml
- Telegraph Peterborough: Will a hunt deal be done behind closed doors? - Guy Adams. Announcement of secret DEFRA meeting scheduled for 13 June with the Countryside Alliance, the parliamentary Middle Way Group and the Countdown to a Ban.
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fopinion%2F2002%2F05%2F25%2Fdp2501.xml
- Telegraph: Foxes 'will suffer' from hunting ban - Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Miles Cooper, who worked for the Hunt Saboteurs Association and the League Against Cruel Sports in the 1990s, explains why a ban would increase the use of gun packs and therefore foxes would suffer more injuries.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F05%2F24%2Fnfox24.xml
- Telegraph: Rural rebellion - Leader. The failure of trying to work with the government by relying on courteous relations as opposed to creating confrontational headlines.
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fopinion%2F2002%2F05%2F25%2Fdl2502.xml
- Times: Hounds follow noses to Whitehall protest - Valerie Elliott. The Union of Country Sports Workers arranged for about 500 demonstrators, 40 on horseback, to support a Countryside Alliance vigil in Parliament Square against a ban on foxhunting.
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-304720,00.html
- Times: Radical pro-hunt group pledges 'direct action' - The Real Countryside Alliance intends to use direct action to make its point.
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-309709,00.html
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