BBC: Safety warning for hunt ban MSPs
- Officers responsible for policing the parliament said they met a group of campaigners who had made clear their intention to disrupt parliamentary business and harass MSPs.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1706203.stm

Telegraph: MSPs reject payout for hunt workers
- By Tom Peterkin, Scottish Political Correspondent. Members of the Scottish Parliament's rural development committee voted six to five against an amendment proposing that the Scottish Executive subsidise those whose livelihoods will be destroyed when the B
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F12%2F05%2Fnshunt05.xml

Guardian: Countryside campaigners march on Scottish parliament
- Gerard Seenan. News coverage about the 15,000 people who took part in its March on the Mound demonstration in Edinburgh's Meadows to protest at the handling of countryside issues by the Scottish parliament.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4321083,00.html

Guardian: Scottish hunts prepare for last hurrah
- Kirsty Scott. A bill to ban mounted fox hunting in Scotland, the first part of the UK to prohibit the practice, is expected to become law some time next year.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4327156,00.html