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- Independent Sketch: Bluff and bluster as the Lords try and fail to get to grips with fox hunting - Simon Carr. A review of the debate in Lords with a reminder of how it was instigated by Stephen Byers.
www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=276433
- Independent: Delay on hunting is not an option, peers are warned - Ben Russell, political correspondent. Coverage of the seven-hour debate in Lords, including a comparison of the vote totals of 2001 to 2002.
www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=276373
- Independent: Government will force hunting bill through Parliament - Amanda Brown, environment correspondent, PA News. The Government pledges to use the Parliament Act if the Lords reject the government's Bill, whatever that might be.
www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=277007
- Independent: How your MP voted on banning hunting with dogs - List of MPs organised by party and vote.
www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=276060
- Independent: Hunting Bill will fall short of a total ban - Ben Russell, political correspondent. Expectations of a compromise bill after a further consultation period.
www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=276734
- Independent: Labour MPs reject compromise with overwhelming vote to ban fox-hunting - MPs voted overwhelmingly for an outright ban on fox hunting last night, rebuffing compromise proposals backed by Tony Blair. Only 11 Labour MPs voted for the so-called middle way.
www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=276015
- Independent: Lords back 'middle way' in vote on hunting ban - Ben Russell, political correspondent. Labour MPs will demand today that Tony Blair force through a ban on fox hunting after peers provoked a clash with the Commons by giving overwhelming backing to a compromise allowing hunting with hounds to continue.
www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=276378
- Independent: Minister denies secret deal for fox-hunting compromise - Ben Russell. The Government is "standing neutral" on the eve of a major debate on the future of fox hunting, Alun Michael, the Minister for Rural Affairs, insisted last night. He denied a secret deal had been made to back a compromise "middle way" banning hare coursing and imposing tough controls on fox hunting.
www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=275706
- Independent: Rebellion in the air at last fox hunt in Scotland - Paul Kelbie, Scotland correspondent. The last hunt of the season for the Duke of Buccleuch's Hunt took place in Ettrick Forest where people have hunted for 600 years.
www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=278448
- Star Tribune: Outfoxed in Scotland - Dennis Anderson. Discusses the impact of the possible UK hunt bans on the people associated with hunting. Minnesota, USA.
www.startribune.com/stories/533/2102879.html
- Telegraph Country Diary: Hunting and the law - RWF Poole. Explains the conflicts, inconsistencies and loopholes in the bill as passed.
www.telegraph.co.uk/outdoors/main.jhtml?xml=/outdoors/2002/03/23/odiar23.xml&sSheet=/outdoors/2002/03/23/ixoright.html
- Telegraph: Country diary: hunting and the law - RWF Poole interprets the legal jargon of the Scottish ban.
www.telegraph.co.uk/outdoors/main.jhtml?xml=/outdoors/2002/03/23/odiar23.xml
- Telegraph: Country diary: Watson Bill - RWF Poole. The Bill's issues with the European Convention of Human Rights, including the cost of direct compensation, estimated at pounds 99-127 million.
www.telegraph.co.uk/outdoors/main.jhtml?xml=/outdoors/2002/03/02/opool02.xml
- The Scotsman: Duke in pledge to save his hunt - Edward Black. More than 200 riders and over a thousand supporters attended the meet of the Duke of Buccleuchs Hunt at Ettrick Forest. The next meet will be held in the courts.
www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=327652002
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