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Telegraph: League Against Cruel Sports accused of starving deer on its own sanctuary - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1414129/League-Against-Cruel-Sports-accused-of-starving-deer-on-its-own-sanctuary.html
According to the league's own (anti-hunting) deerstalker, the deer should be humanely culled to avoid the suffering of individual deer. According to Douglas Batchelor, nature (starvation, disease and hypothermia) should be left to control excessive deer populations. |
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Telegraph: Field sport foes will sit in judgment on local hunts - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1412730/Field-sport-foes-will-sit-in-judgment-on-local-hunts.html
Francis Elliott, deputy political editor. The proposed law will ban hare coursing and staghunting, allow rat and rabbit hunting, and use tribunals, chaired by senior legal figures and including members from animal welfare and countryside groups, to rule on individual foxhunts being both necessary and the most humane method. If there is no consensus, the chairman will decide. |
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Telegraph: Peer behind Bill to ban foxhunting praises shooting - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1413025/Peer-behind-Bill-to-ban-foxhunting-praises-shooting.html
Tom Peterkin, Scotland political correspondent. Lord Watson of Invergowrie, the MSP behind the foxhunting ban, was accused of hypocrisy yesterday after he extolled the virtues of shooting game and stalking deer. |
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BBC: Ban hunting, MPs urge - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2474323.stm
The reactions of all sides to the Queen's Speech: the League Against Cruel Sports, the Countryside Alliance and the Middle Way Group. |
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BBC: Hunt groups say 'no middle way' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2465385.stm
Pro- and anti-hunt groups in the South West have been considering what has been announced in the Queen's Speech. |
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Times: Rural workers mount human rights challenge - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article828313.ece
Anthony Browne, environment editor. The Union of Country Sports Workers representing gamekeepers and huntsmen is seeking a judicial review to overturn the Scottish ban on hunting with dogs on the grounds that it is illegal discrimination. |
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Times: Tribunals seen as answer to hunt ban issue - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article829149.ece
Valerie Elliott, countryside editor. Alun Michael, Rural Affairs Minister, is to meet some Labour MPs next week. One of his arguments is to point to the legal muddle created by the hunting ban in Scotland and new concerns about animal welfare as more foxes are being shot and left wounded. |
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Times: Ministers still cannot shoot straight on hunting - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article827682.ece
Aidan Harrison. Why any Bill published with a title along the lines of "The Protection of Wild Mammals..." will be a lie. |
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Telegraph: McCartney's freed foxes overwhelm local farms - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1412729/McCartney%27s-freed-foxes-overwhelm-local-farms.html
Daniel Foggo. A former member of the League stated that five or six foxes at a time were released on to Sir Paul McCartney's land, and once 15 or 16. With no rabbit habitat in the dense, coniferous wood the foxes dispersed to the neighbouring land on which farmers keep sheep. Foxes being territorial they kept moving on until they found a vacant area. |
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Telegraph: Police refuse to prosecute Scots hunt - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1413115/Police-refuse-to-prosecute-Scots-hunt.html
Tom Peterkin, Scotland political correspondent. A police spokesman said: "The matter was discussed with the procurator-fiscal and it was concluded that no crime had been committed." |
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Telegraph: Hunt supporters in final campaign to prevent ban - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1413117/Hunt-supporters-in-final-campaign-to-prevent-ban.html
Charles Clover, environment editor. The alliance, in a "Declaration of Cohesion" said after yesterday's Queen's Speech: "A partial ban on legitimate hunting has no evidence to support it, is based on prejudice not good sense, and would be fought with implacable resolve and with all lawful means at our disposal." |
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Telegraph: Campaign to show real hunt enthusiasts - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1411863/Campaign-to-show-real-hunt-enthusiasts.html
Peter Foster. The Countryside Alliance's new advertising campaign features a plumber, a student and a gay couple. The campaign is aimed at challenging the stereotypical perceptions of hunting that supporters say are peddled by opponents who want the sport banned. |
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Telegraph: Militant group declares 'war' on hunt ban - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1413421/Militant-group-declares-%27war%27-on-hunt-ban.html
Daniel Foggo. The spokesman for the Real CA, a hardline splinter group, announced the decision at a summit meeting held two days previous that when the terms of the new Bill are deemed to be a 'hostile', then the response of the group will escalate to the disruption of utilities. |
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Telegraph: Queen's Speech gives hope to hunt campaigners - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1413305/Queen%27s-Speech-gives-hope-to-hunt-campaigners.html
The mood among Countryside Alliance supporters was upbeat as a record 15,000 crowd turned out yesterday for its annual fund-raiser at Cheltenham racecourse. |
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Guardian: Fight for outright ban left to MPs - http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2002/nov/14/uk.hunting
Lucy Ward, political correspondent. The wording of the speech suggests that, as campaigners predict, the government is unlikely to put forward legislation paving the way for an outright hunting ban. |