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Home / Regional / Europe / United Kingdom / Recreation and Sports / Sports / Country Sports / UK Hunting Bill 2001 / News and Media / 2002 / August
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- BBC: White horses defaced by activists - Story plus photos of the two giant white horses in North Yorkshire and Oxfordshire which had huntsmen and hounds added to them overnight.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2220725.stm
- Financial Times: A rough ride for New Labour - Kevin Brown. Douglas Batchelor insists the hearings are intended simply to determine how to implement a ban. John Jackson sees them as an attempt by ministers to provide some room for manoeuvre. Mr Michael refuses to say what kind of common ground he is seeking.
news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1028186131206
- Financial Times: Countryside lobby in plea to ministers on hunting - John Jackson, chairman of the Countryside Alliance, said his preferred option was a broad wildlife management authority that would regulate hunting as part of a new national strategy for the countryside.
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- Guardian: Camilla wants to go on pro-hunt march - Tania Branigan. Douglas Batchelor of LACS is upset that Camilla Parker Bowles hopes to march with her friends in the Countryside Alliance March in London next month.
www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,781496,00.html
- Telegraph: 'We'll make them think again' - Adrian Dangar. Interview with whipper-in Otis Ferry, 19, the son of the singer Bryan Ferry, who was arrested while making a pro-hunting protest at the Prime Minister's home in July.
www.telegraph.co.uk/outdoors/main.jhtml?xml=/outdoors/2002/08/17/ootis17.xml
- Telegraph: 1,200 riders bring hunt protest into city centre - Nick Britten. Riders formed a two and a half mile procession in Leicester to protest the proposed ban on foxhunting. They were accompanied by Mr President, the black American rap artist, and Miles Cooper, a former senior member of the League Against Cruel Sports who has switched sides because of his concerns about cruelty to wildlife under a ban.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/24/nmarch24.xml
- Telegraph: Country prepares to descend on London - Peter Foster. The March is bringing together British Muslim hare coursers from Pakistan, gamekeepers, blacksmiths and rat-catchers along with supporters from twelve other countries including France, Australia and the United States.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/27/nhunt27.xml
- Telegraph: Duncan Smith in hunt ban pledge - David Millward. Iain Duncan Smith promises that if elected Prime Minister he will allow Government time for a ban to be reversed. He accuses Labour of mounting a class war instead of governing for one nation.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/30/nids30.xml
- Telegraph: Huntsmen to track human prey - Auslan Cramb. The Berwickshire Hunt is diversifying into hunting the clean boot with bloodhounds as well as continuing to hunt foxes by driving them into the open to be shot, as the Scottish Parliament has now instructed, even though their joint master and huntsman considers it is a disgusting and unreliable way to kill foxes.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/14/nshunt14.xml
- Telegraph: MP urges curb on pro-hunt sabotage - Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Chris Mullin, senior Labour MP, is concerned that pro-hunting campaigners may be adopting the techniques of their hunt sab opponents.
portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/03/notis103.xml
- Telegraph: Pro-hunting protest targets RSPCA - Robert Uhlig, farming correspondent. Pro-hunting people and dogs, led by Richard Meade, demonstrated at the new RSPCA headquarters on behalf of the 20,000 hunting dogs that will be affected by a ban.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/08/nhunt08.xml
- Telegraph: Right to march - Leader. "Denying the rights of a minority to engage in activities harmless to other people, in realms outside hunting, fishing or shooting, could well become of great importance."
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/08/30/dl3003.xml
- Telegraph: Trapped in red tape - Ross Clark. Britain's confusing and contradictory pest-control laws, with summaries by animal species.
www.telegraph.co.uk/outdoors/main.jhtml?xml=/outdoors/2002/08/17/optrap17.xml
- Telegraph: US rap artist joins the call for rural liberty - Peter Foster. Meet Mr President, the American rap artist who has written 'Balance', the March anthem, after being inspired by talking to protestors during their round-the-clock vigil in Parliament Square.
portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/23/npres23.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/08/23/ixhome.html
- The Herald: Hounds to hunt for a human quarry - Mr Law, who is captain of the 300-year-old Berwickshire Hunt, will run two miles with the pack of bloodhounds acquired by Jeremy Whaley, master of the hunt, on his trail. Mr Whaley plans to hold the hunts every week in addition to their still-legal fox pest control service for farmers and landowners.
www.s1news.com/news/37810.html
- This Is London: Tory leader to go on pro-hunt march - Iain Duncan Smith: "I take the view that even if I did not fish or shoot that others should be able to do so. Hunting is not an oppressive pastime."
www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=681271
- Times: Hardline hunt group defaces white horse landmarks - Valerie Elliott, countryside editor. The famous Uffington and Kilburn chalk horses were temporarily joined by huntsmen and hounds.
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-396996,00.html
- Times: Man hunt to beat the ban on foxes - For the first time a bloodhound "clean boot" pack will operate north of the border. Nearly a dozen already operate in England.
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-384235,00.html
- Times: Tory chief and family to join pro-hunt march - Iain Duncan Smith supports the March because hunting has nothing to do with animal cruelty. This is just a class war and it is about people on horses in red coats.
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,635-397780,00.html
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