Guardian: Fox hunting bill backed by RSPCA's former chief vet
- Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. Bill Swann, writing to a member of the Commons rural affairs select committee: "I am firmly of the view that the hunting bill provides the means to achieve what we have been campaigning for and bring ab
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/hunt/Story/0,2763,869996,00.html

Western Mail: Researchers to investigate use of guns on foxes
- Carl Yapp. The Middle Way Group is conducting research to determine whether it is worse for a fox to be hunted down or shot to death. LACS is against hunting, shooting and the research itself.
- http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0600uk/page.cfm?objectid=12522226&method=full&siteid=50082

Telegraph: New deal increases threat to hunting
- Benedict Brogan, political correspondent. Mr Michael accused of reneging on his promise to base the Bill on evidence rather than politics.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/22/nhunt22.xml

Telegraph: Hunting Bill 'would offer £1m refund'
- Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Animal rights activists who donated £1 million to the Labour Party could receive state funding under the Hunting Bill. Rob Marris, a Labour member of the committee, said it was "odd" but the amendment to
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/29/nhunt29.xml

Guardian: Bill would ban fox hunting for sport
- Patrick Wintour. The standing committee of Commons voted that hunts will only be allowed if they are needed to control pests. The members disagreed as to the definition of 'pest'.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,876434,00.html

Telegraph: Hunt Bill's tests 'could ban meat from farms'
- Charles Clover and Andrew Sparrow. Dr Douglas Wise, a lecturer from Cambridge University, criticised the Bill's definition of 'utility' because it excludes economic, environmental, social or cultural reasons. If applied generally, it would ban farming to
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/10/nhunt10.xml

Guardian Politics: Handkerchiefs at dawn
- David Cameron MP. Bonding with his beleaguered minority constituents: first hunting with the Heythrop, then Morris dancing in Bampton. Explains reasons for preserving both, along with thoughts of reality TV.
- http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,9321,870072,00.html