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- BBC : New challenge to hunt bill - Supporters of the bill to ban foxhunting in Scotland are claiming it faces a new threat which could destroy it.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1563000/1563921.stm
- BBC: Hunting bill hits major setback - Plans to ban fox-hunting in Scotland fail are branded too wide-ranging and unworkable by a parliamentary committee. Includes audio clip.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1433000/1433016.stm
- BBC: Hunting bill MSP 'optimistic' - The MSP behind the bill to ban fox hunting in Scotland says he will be supported in parliament, despite a rejection in committee. Includes Video clip.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1433000/1433742.stm
- BBC: Vote supports hunting ban - The Scottish Parliament votes decisively in favour of pressing ahead with a bill to ban hunting with dogs.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1553000/1553028.stm
- Scotland on Sunday: Freedom threatened by the tyranny of the majority - Katie Grant. "There are two ways to destroy freedom and we have seen them both over the past two weeks. One is the tyranny of the terrorist. The other, the tyranny of the majority."
www.scotlandonsunday.com/comment.cfm?id=SS01037205
- Telegraph: Bill should focus on hunting as 'sport' says MSP - By Tom Peterkin, Scottish Politics Correspondent. About the new amendment attempting to abolish mounted fox hunting, fox baiting and hare coursing for `sporting purposes' but still allowing gamekeepers, farmers and the Scottish hill packs to hunt with dogs for pest control.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F09%2F28%2Fnhunt28.xml
- The Scotsman: Fox-manglers rally for the tally-ho debate - Robert McNeil. "Mike Watson (Lab), proposer of the bill to ban the frightful hobby, seemed heartily tired of it."
www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=109179
- The Scotsman: Hunting ban within a year - By Hamish Macdonell, Scottish political editor. "Fox-hunting is to be outlawed within a year following a crucial vote in the Scottish parliament yesterday."
www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=109152
- The Scotsman: Hunting vote - Les Ward, Chairman Scottish Campaign Against Hunting with Dogs. "In a modern, civilised Scotland, there is no longer a place or justification for the cruel practice of deliberately using dogs."
www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=109041
- The Scotsman: Hunting vote - Mark Conway. "If committees are to be ignored, then clearly they are not needed."
www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=108777
- The Scotsman: Labour MSPs compromise bid to emasculate anti-hunting bill - Hamish Macdonell, Scottish political editor. "The amendment would not ban hunting but it would force ministers to take on the issue themselves and introduce new, unspecified, measures to prevent cruelty to wild animals."
www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=108709
- The Sunday Times: Scots hunters forced abroad - Jenny Shields. "Look at Ireland, look at France, they're in Europe and they can hunt. Why are we being dictated to?"
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stiscosco01006.html
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