Telegraph: Trust forfeits gift of rare books over hunting ban
- Will Bennett, art sales correspondent. The National Trust's ban on staghunting on its land has cost it the ownership of one of Britain's finest collections of books on country houses.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/18/nnt18.xml

Telegraph: 44pc of deer killed by hunts 'are already hurt'
- Almost half the deer killed by hunting last season were already suffering from road accident or shot wounds according to ISAH, the sport's regulatory body. 43 per cent of foxes killed were either a nuisance to farmers or suffering from mange.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/17/nbul17.xml

Scotsman: Fox Hunting Row Horn to Sound Again in the Lords
- Amanda Brown, environment correspondent, PA News. Mark Shotton, master of the hunt in Tony Blair's Sedgefield constituency in the North East said: "I just wish people would realise that if fox hunting is banned, everything will be killed by the guns,
- http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2072852

IOL: Blair targets foxes' fate in hunt for votes
- Analysis of the current hunting bill situation from a South African perspective.
- http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=24&art_id=ct20031017191129460E000407&set_id=1

ic NorthWales: Duke backs hunt rally
- Andrew Forgrave and Sam Lister. A protest hunt is to be held on the Duke of Westminster's Eaton estate on the Welsh borders, at which riders and followers will pledge to break the law if hunting is banned.
- http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/regionalnews/content_objectid=13499053_method=full_siteid=50142_headline=-Duke-backs-hunt-rally-name_page.html

Guardian: Pro-bloodsport peers block anti-hunting bill
- Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. A bill to ban hunting with dogs was blocked by pro-hunting peers in protest at the time allocated to its debate.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1073931,00.html

Telegraph: 'Class war' behind vote against hunt
- Graham Tibbetts. 44 per cent believe anti-hunting Labour MPs are motivated by class war rather than animal welfare, according to an ICM poll published yesterday. 38 per cent backed a complete ban, 30 per cent supported a licensing system and 24 per cent a
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/04/nhunt04.xml

Telegraph: Bill to ban hunting is blocked by Lords
- Andrew Sparrow. The Government is reluctant to make firm commitments about what they will do next. According to Whitehall sources, Mr Blair does not want a Bill banning hunting to be seen by the public as a Government measure.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/30/nhunt30.xml

Western Morning News: Lords reject hunting ban
- Lord Whitty claimed the Lords wrecked the Bill by removing the coursing ban. Alun Michael had earlier claimed that Commons had created a "wrecked, unenforceable and unworkable" Bill by making it a complete ban.
- http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=103354&command=displayContent&sourceNode=103331&contentPK=7572525

Telegraph: Lords kill off Hunting Bill
- The Hunting Bill, which MPs had amended in June to ban fox hunting in England and Wales, was effectively killed off in the Lords after it became clear the Government had not allowed them sufficient time to debate it.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/29/uhunt.xml

BBC News: Lords reject coursing ban
- Environment Minister Lord Whitty accused peers of "destroying the basis" of the bill. Mike Hobday, of the League Against Cruel Sports, said a House of Lords decision rejecting a ban had killed any hope of compromise on the government's Hunting B
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3222519.stm

Sun: Peers vote to save hunts
- Peers rejected the complete ban on fox hunting backed by MPs and voted for a licensing system for hunts.
- http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003490272,00.html

BBC News: Hunt deadlock looms
- Nick Assinder, political correspondent. The ping pong years reviewed, with the expectation of the Parliament Act being used.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3209978.stm

BBC News: Lords rejects hunting ban
- The peers reinstated the plans for a registration system originally proposed by the government but later rejected in the House of Commons. The committee stages of the bill continue in the Lords on Wednesday next week.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3208776.stm

Guardian Unlimited Politics: Peers reverse ban on hunting
- Sarah Hall, political correspondent. A cross party amendment to the Hunting Bill allowing registered hunting to continue was passed by 261 votes to 49 after vociferous debate between the peers and the junior government minister Lord Whitty.
- http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,1068128,00.html

Guardian Unlimited Politics: Peers scent blood as they go in for the kill
- Simon Hoggart's sketch of the Hunting Bill being returned to its original form in the House of Lords, illustrated by peers describing their own unusual lives.
- http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/comment/0,9236,1068169,00.html

Telegraph: Whitty fury as peers savage hunting Bill
- Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Lord Whitty, the environment minister in charge of the Hunting Bill, announced that the Government would not willingly accept any of the 100-plus amendments tabled by backbench peers. Said peers were not impressed.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;?xml=/news/2003/10/22/nlords22.xml

The Observer: Blair's ally defends right to hunt foxes
- Kamal Ahmed, political editor. Waheed Alli, millionaire Labour peer and friend of Peter Mandelson, explains why he will break with his party's traditional position this week and declare any ban on hunting to be an illiberal act based on intolerance, rathe
- http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1066325,00.html

The Observer: The wrong fox
- Leader. Considers the Bill to ban hunting with dogs "one of the most hypocritical Bills of modern time" and that if animal welfare were truly the aim of the Bill, the Government would be addressing the far worse (yet legal) abuse of millions of
- http://observer.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,6903,1066158,00.html

ic Liverpool: Hunters take to streets in protest
- The fox hunting fraternity of Cheshire, Merseyside, Manchester and North Wales will take to the streets at Eaton Aerodrome on November 1 in a bid to stop hunting being banned.
- http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/content_objectid=13508929_method=full_siteid=50061_headline=-Hunters-take-to-streets-in-protest-name_page.html

ic Cheshire Online: Duke okays hunt rally
- The Duke of Westminster is to host a rally on Declaration Day which will encourage peaceful civil disobedience if a hunting ban is passed into law.
- http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/chesterchronicle/content_objectid=13499260_method=full_siteid=50020_headline=-Pro-hunt-activists-to-fight--unjust--law-on-Duke-s-land-name_page.html

Telegraph: If Labour bans foxhunting, civil disobedience would be justified
- Robert Skidelsky, Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University and a cross bench peer in the House of Lords, explains why the law would be invalid.
- http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/10/08/do0801.xml