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BBC: Huge turnout for countryside march - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2274129.stm
Over 400,000 people marched through London in support of the countryside, in one of the UK's biggest protests of recent times. Photos, audio clips and map. (Links to eleven additional stories on the same day.) |
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BBC News - In pictures: The Countryside March - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2274358.stm
About 400,000 people descended on London for the Liberty and Livelihood march, bringing the streets of Westminster to a halt. |
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BBC News - Farmer's diary: Marching for our future - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2275574.stm
Adam Quinney, a Warwickshire livestock farmer, gives his account of the Liberty and Livelihood march. |
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BBC News - Fighting talk behind festive spirit - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2274269.stm
Hunting green, tweed and flat caps are much in evidence among the countryside protesters on the Liberty and Livelihood march in London. By Megan Lane BBC News Online, in central London. |
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BBC News - Hunters united - for now - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2268552.stm
The Countryside Alliance march in London on 22 September is a fragile coalition of very different interests. |
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Guardian: 400,000 bring rural protest to London - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/sep/23/hunting.ruralaffairs2
Tania Branigan. In response to speculation that he might propose a licensing system, Alun Michael said yesterday: "A lot of people have recognised that the two sides have become too polarised. Activities with dogs may be no more cruel, or actually less cruel, than other ways of dealing with it. On the other hand, people are saying we cannot just go on as we always have done. But that doesn't necessarily mean accepting the 'middle way' option." |
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The Telegraph Calcutta India - http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020923/asp/foreign/index.asp
Front page. A child sleeps prior to the Liberty and Livelihood march - one of Britain's biggest rallies - organised by the Countryside Alliance in London on Sunday. India. |
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Guardian: From landowners to pony clubs - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/sep/21/hunting.ruralaffairs
Snapshot of the many groups who will be marching on Sunday in support of the countryside. |
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Guardian: Countryside sounds call to arms - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/sep/22/ruralaffairs.hunting
Paul Harris and Stephen Khan. They are coming from all corners of Britain and all walks of life. From landowners to tenant farmers, shopkeepers to vicars, and huntsmen to retired army officers: the countryside is coming to London. |
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Telegraph: A day for 815,582 sensible shoes - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1408099/A-day-for-815%2C582-sensible-shoes.html
W.F. Deedes. Impressions of the people marching and their reasons for doing so. |
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Telegraph: Labour defies country march - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1408105/Labour-defies-country-march.html
George Jones, political editor. The Government was accused yesterday of adopting a "complacent and arrogant" approach to the countryside after a minister described the Liberty and Livelihood marchers as "muddled". (Links to seven additional stories on the same day.) |
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CBC News: Huge rally defends UK fox hunting - http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2002/09/22/foxhunt_march020922.html
"If they try to take away our freedoms one by one, the countryside will suffer and our livelihoods will suffer," said one woman marcher. Canada. |
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BBC News - MPs 'are listening' to countryside - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2272404.stm
The government is listening to the concerns of rural people, says one minister ahead of Sunday's countryside march in London. |
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New Zealand Herald: Rural rights protest draws 400,000 to London - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=2848444
"Today we are making history... They must listen," said the march's main organiser, James Stanford. The march of 407,791 protesters brought London to a standstill. New Zealand. |
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Hello!: Celebrities join countryside marchers in huge demo - http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2002/09/23/ruralmarch/
A range of famous faces including model Elle Macpherson, footballer-turned-actor-turned-singer Vinnie Jones, comedian Jim Davidson, actor Edward Fox, Earl Spencer and explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes joined the demonstration in London. |
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Scoop: UK Country Mobilization - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0209/S00151.htm
Malcolm Aitken. Interviews with a cross-section of the protesters of the March to highlight rural decline in Britain and defend hunting with hounds. New Zealand. |
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Ireland Online: 400,000 countryside campaigners march on London - http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/?c=ireland&jp=gbsnmhgbql
Rural Britain took over central London today in the biggest invasion of its kind ever seen as at least 400,000 demonstrators converged on the capital. Whether the march will signal a sea-change in the way the Government deals with rural affairs remains to be seen. Ireland. |
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New York Times: 400,000 Rural Protesters Take to London Streets - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E0D81739F930A1575AC0A9649C8B63
Reuters. Rural protesters held one of the biggest marches of recent times in London to defend fox hunting and their traditional ways of life. Video clip. [RealPlayer] USA. |
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Scotsman: Cheers as saltires join the voices of protest - http://www.scotsman.com/uk/Cheers-as-saltires-join-the.2363514.jp
Edward Black. Why the countryside people of Scotland marched in the Liberty and Livelihood March. Scotland. |
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Irish Independent: Countryside protesters take over London - http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/countryside-protesters-take-over-london-293733.html
More than 400,000 hunters, farmers, and landowners descended on London for the Liberty and Livelihood march to defend fox hunting and their traditional ways of life. Ireland. |
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San Francisco Chronicle: Murmurs of class war as Britain hounds fox hunters - Bid to mimic Scottish ban's a flashpoint issue - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/21/MN183550.DTL
Michael Pilgrim, Chronicle Foreign Service. The issue reveals schisms between economic classes and town and countryside that date back centuries: arguments in Scotland about banning English influence, and arguments in England about the relative cruelty of different fox-control methods. California, USA. |
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The Age: A hunting they'll go - http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/22/1032055034873.html
Mr Bishop, who farms in Herefordshire, said he had been receiving the same prices for some of his produce as he did in the 1970s, while supermarkets sold them at five to seven times the farm gate price. Australia. |
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People's Daily: Tens of Thousands Demonstrate in London for Rural Rights - http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200209/23/eng20020923_103687.shtml
Tens of thousands of people from across Britain marched through central London on Sunday to stage a protest against an official ban on hunting and highlight the needs of rural communities. China. |
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Cape Times: Rural folk and fox hunters hound London - http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=ct20020922235940611B635971
More than 350 000 aggrieved country folk have taken part here in one of Britain's biggest marches, defending the right to hunt foxes and protesting at the erosion of rural life. South Africa. |
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BBC: London braced for huge protest - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2272292.stm
Organisers of the countryside march in London on Sunday say they expect a turn-out of at least 250,000 people. |
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BBC Breakfast: Countryside march - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/2273939.stm
As tens of thousands converge on London for the Liberty and Livelihood marches, Breakfast reported live on the issues involved in the rural protests. Photos and video clips. |
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Telegraph: What will make them listen? - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/09/24/dl2401.xml
Leader. Denounces the "breathtakingly patronising" response to the march by Alun Michael, the minister for rural affairs. |
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Spiked: Rural recognition - http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DA60.htm
Josie Appleton. Liberty and livelihood on the march. Oppression breeds anger...and insurrection. |
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New York Times: Blood Sport as Politics - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/opinion/blood-sport-as-politics.html
John Mortimer, attorney and author of the Horace Rumpole stories. We live in a society with many different values, and many ways of life, and the only way we can live together is by mutual tolerance. Although opinion polls show a majority of citizens do not care for hunting, far fewer think it should be made a crime. |
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CNN.com: Huge rural march grips London - http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/09/22/uk.country/
Around 400,000 campaigners have taken part in a countryside rights march in London in one of Britain's biggest rallies. Video clip. [RealPlayer] USA. |