Irish Independent: Countryside protesters take over London
- 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.
- http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/countryside-protesters-take-over-london-293733.html

Guardian: Countryside sounds call to arms
- 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.
- http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,796796,00.html

10 Downing Street Newsroom: Lobby Briefing
- Media questions with answers from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman. Questions included asking if the Prime Minister was aware of the purpose of yesterday's March in light of Alun Michael's reported admission that he personally was not, and whether
- http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/page2485.asp

Guardian: 400,000 bring rural protest to London
- 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 le
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,796982,00.html

Guardian: From landowners to pony clubs
- Snapshot of the many groups who will be marching on Sunday in support of the countryside.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,796052,00.html

CBC News: Huge rally defends UK fox hunting
- "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.
- http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/09/22/foxhunt_march020922

San Francisco Chronicle: Murmurs of class war as Britain hounds fox hunters - Bid to mimic Scottish ban's a flashpoint issue
- 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
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/21/MN183550.DTL

New York Times: Blood Sport as Politics
- 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 n
- http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/opinion/24MORT.html

The Age: A hunting they'll go
- 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.
- http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/22/1032055034873.html

Scoop: UK Country Mobilization
- 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.
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/50/ef/200209261122.9c4ab313.html

Scotsman: Country ready to take on the city
- Edward Black and William Lyons. Scotland might be the only part of the United Kingdom where politicians have successfully passed anti-hunting legislation, but they have failed to quell anger among rural communities who will form a sizeable invasion force
- http://www.news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1047302002

Scotsman: Cheers as saltires join the voices of protest
- Edward Black. Why the countryside people of Scotland marched in the Liberty and Livelihood March. Scotland.
- http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=1056142002

Scotland on Sunday: March of the hunters
- J. Watson. The Scottish countryside is sending a 7,000-strong contingent of protesters to the Liberty and Livelihood March. Scotland.
- http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=1052692002

Gulf Daily News: Fox-hunting backers face threats
- Activists opposed to fox-hunting are threatening to wreck the homes and farms of country folk who are expected to pour into London today in one of Britain's biggest ever protests. Bahrain.
- http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/arc_Articles.asp?Article=33120&Sn=WORL&IssueID=25186

Gulf Daily News: 400,000 invade London to fight for rural rights
- "We have no services, we have no post office, we have no shop, we never see a policeman," said a marcher from the village of Priors Hardwick in central England. "We've had enough." Bahrain.
- http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/arc_Articles.asp?Article=33181&Sn=WORL&IssueID=25187

Ireland Online: 400,000 countryside campaigners march on London
- 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
- http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=48973102&p=489738x8

The Telegraph Calcutta India
- 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.
- http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020923/asp/foreign/index.asp

People's Daily: Tens of Thousands Demonstrate in London for Rural Rights
- 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.
- http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200209/23/eng20020923_103687.shtml

Cape Times: Rural folk and fox hunters hound London
- 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.
- http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=ct20020922235940611B635971

BBC: London braced for huge protest
- Organisers of the countryside march in London on Sunday say they expect a turn-out of at least 250,000 people.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2272292.stm

Times: Yesterday, our nation spoke from the heart
- William Rees-Mogg. Thoughts on the meaning of the march.
- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-424160,00.html

BBC Breakfast: Countryside march
- 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.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/2273939.stm

BBC: Huge turnout for countryside march
- 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.)
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2274129.stm

Sun: Capital swamped as 400,000 stage biggest protest in history
- More than 400,000 lovers of the rural way of life demanded to be seen and heard. Helicopter photo. (Links to two additional stories on the same day.)
- http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002440354.html

New York Times: 400,000 Rural Protesters Take to London Streets
- 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.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/23/international/europe/23LOND.html

Telegraph: What will make them listen?
- Leader. Denounces the "breathtakingly patronising" response to the march by Alun Michael, the minister for rural affairs.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/09/24/dl2401.xml

Telegraph: Labour defies country march
- 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 addit
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/24/nhunt24.xml

Telegraph: A day for 815,582 sensible shoes
- W.F. Deedes. Impressions of the people marching and their reasons for doing so.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/24/nhunt224.xml

Spiked: Rural recognition
- Josie Appleton. Liberty and livelihood on the march. Oppression breeds anger...and insurrection.
- http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DA60.htm

Hello!: Celebrities join countryside marchers in huge demo
- 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.
- http://www.hellomagazine.com/2002/09/23/ruralmarch/