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 | Evening Standard: Countryside fury - Leader. The Government will be making a serious mistake if it continues to ignore the pleas of the countryside - it could prove to be Labour's poll tax. (September 29, 2002)
|  | Observer: Foxes stir the soul of a nation: Saddam doesn't - Clive Aslet. After marching in both, the editor of Country Life compares the Countryside Liberty and Livelihood march with the anti-war march. (September 29, 2002)
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 | Telegraph: Ignore marchers' anger at your peril, Mr Blair - David Harrison, environment correspondent. The government's chief adviser on the countryside, Ewen Cameron of the Countryside Agency, will warn Tony Blair this week that rural frustration will spill into civil disobedience if he ignores concerns raised during the Liberty and Livelihood march in London. (September 29, 2002)
|  | This is London: Intolerance that made me march - Kate Hoey, Labour MP. Tony Blair is the Prime Minister who vowed to build a tolerant nation free from prejudice. It is a shame he doesn't seem to include the countryside as part of this nation. (September 29, 2002)
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 | Telegraph: Britain evenly split on foxhunting - David Derbyshire. While 50 per cent of the people questioned in a Telegraph/YouGov poll believed that hunting should be criminalised, 48 per cent favoured tighter regulations or keeping the status quo. (Links to three additional stories on the same day.) (September 28, 2002)
|  | Guardian: Another country - Leader. There is absolutely no doubt that they are widespread and passionately held feelings, and no government should allow grievances to continue to fester in this way. Mr Blair needs to reflect and respond. He should not pretend that the mood will just go away or be easily mollified. But he needs a strategy. This morning's ICM poll should be enough to concentrate his mind on that. (September 24, 2002)
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 | New York Times: Blood Sport as Politics - John Mortimer, attorney and author of the Horace Rumpole stories. There is no worse tyranny, wrote John Stuart Mill, than that of a majority. The test of democracy is not that the majority should always get its way but how far minorities are respected. Will fox hunting be saved? Our best hope is to get President Bush to put on a pink coat and chase a fox; no doubt Tony Blair would fall right in behind him. (September 24, 2002)
|  | BBC Breakfast: Fox hunting debate - The programme has been looking at the concerns of those who live and work in the country all week. Monday focused on the decline of rural services, Tuesday was the impact of cheap imports on British farmers. Thursday was the farmers' complaints against supermarkets. Friday, a special Online forum on fox hunting and the rural way of life, plus a video interview with Mike Hobday and Simon Hart. [RealPlayer] (September 20, 2002)
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 | CNN.com: Hunters march to protect tradition - More than 280,000 campaigners are expected to join a countryside rights march in Britain's capital demanding their traditions are protected. (September 20, 2002)
|  | BBC Breakfast: Countryside in crisis? - The message that the British countryside is in crisis is one which is often repeated - but how true is it? Watch video case studies plua a Forum in which Dave Ward from the League against Cruel Sports and Mal Treharne from the Countryside Alliance debate the issue. [RealPlayer] (September 19, 2002)
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 | BBC: Capital set for 'biggest ever' march - Organisers of the rural Liberty and Livelihood march in London on Sunday say they expect a turnout of at least 250,000 people. (September 19, 2002)
|  | Economist: Charge of the green welly brigade - Balancing the depression in agriculture and the aftermath of the government's disastrous handling of the foot-and-mouth outbreak last year with the advantages of living in the countryside. (September 19, 2002)
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 | Economist: Riding for a fall - Foxhunting is already banned in Scotland, but because of the pest control loophole the hunts continue pretty much as before. (September 19, 2002)
|  | Economist: Why the countryside is angry - Rural people say they want "liberty and livelihood" from the government. They can't have both. (September 19, 2002)
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 | BBC: Pro-hunt beacons lit up - Beacons start a week of protests by countryside campaigners. (September 17, 2002)
|  | BBC: Public schools join countryside march - Top public schools are allowing their boarders to travel to this weekend's countryside march in London but Prince Harry will not be among them. (September 17, 2002)
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 | Derbyshire Evening Telegraph: - A beacon was lit on a hilltop overlooking Carsington Water last night to mark the beginning of a week of protest, and many of the spectators will be on the 60-plus coaches which will travel on Sunday from Derbyshire to the march in London. Some local supporters are interviewed. (September 17, 2002)
|  | Guardian: Hunters get fired up for march on London - Tania Branigan. The international rocket relay fires off the buildup to the March on Sunday. (September 17, 2002)
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 | Telegraph: Blazing beacons start the protest - Nicola Woolcock. Monday night's beacons, bonfires and rockets from Land's End to Scotland marked the start of a week of activity. (September 17, 2002)
|  | Telegraph: 'Something must be done. Rural life is eroding away' - Robert Uhlig, farming correspondent. Marchers will be protesting the deterioration of housing, schools, post offices, shops and public transport as well as the possibility of a ban on hunting. (September 17, 2002)
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 | This is Worcestershire: Luff: We will burn the lies of the PM - Fifty beacons were set alight across Worcestershire to mark the official start of the Countryside Alliance's Liberty & Livelihood campaign. Mid-Worcestershire MP Peter Luff, a founding member of the Middle Way Group, applied the blazing torch to the one at Whittington and said a few words. (September 17, 2002)
|  | Times: Blair goes to the country to woo angry rural voters - Valerie Elliott and Melissa Kite. Mr Blair has agreed that Ewen Cameron, the Government's rural advocate, should join next Sunday's countryside march to listen to the wider grievances of country people. (September 16, 2002)
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 | Sunday Times: I'm willing to risk jail for foxhunting - Otis Ferry. The son of rock star Bryan Ferry explains why he believes so passionately in the countryside way of life, including hunting. (September 15, 2002)
|  | Telegraph: Prisoners of the hunting war - W.F. Deedes. A fox chased by hounds and, if caught, suffering instant death is unacceptable because the fox is being pursued by the wrong sort of people. A fox flushed from its cover by dogs, shot at, perhaps wounded and suffering a lingering death is acceptable because the execution is being carried out, at least in Labour's eyes, by the right sort of people. (September 15, 2002)
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 | Telegraph: Estate owners vow to defy ban on hunting - David Harrison, environment correspondent. The landowners, who lead hunts on their own estates, told The Telegraph yesterday that they would join the growing rebellion against the Government's proposed ban. (September 15, 2002)
|  | Telegraph: Hunt ban will end in chaos, say police - David Bamber, home affairs correspondent. The Government's plans to ban or restrict hunting with hounds would cause chaos in rural areas and put an unacceptable strain on the police, senior officers are warning ministers, due to the practicalities of prioritising and enforcing. (September 15, 2002)
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 | Telegraph: Hunting protest masks deeper divisions - Robert Uhlig, farming correspondent. FMD was the turning point: almost a year since the last of 2,030 outbreaks of foot and mouth was recorded, little appears to have been done to address the most likely cause of the epidemic. Only two sniffer dogs and a poster campaign have been employed to stem the illegal meat imports still flooding into the country. (September 15, 2002)
|  | Telegraph: There is no third way in the hunting debate - Leo McKinstry. Potential problems with a regulatory system for hunting. (September 15, 2002)
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 | Telegraph: A march against bad law - Leader. It is a conservative case - that long-established traditions should be respected - and a liberal case - that activities of which we may not approve should nevertheless be tolerated. The question here is not, "What do you think of hunting?" but, "What do you think of a ban on hunting?" (September 14, 2002)
|  | Times: Tribunals may rule on right to hunt - Valerie Elliott, countryside editor. Alun Michael, the Rural Affairs Minister, is considering local tribunals to oversee hunting. Hunts could apply for permission to hunt for the purposes of pest or population control, and possibly social and economic reasons. (September 12, 2002)
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