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  Around 400,000 campaigners have taken part in a countryside rights march in London in one of Britain's biggest rallies. Video clip. [RealPlayer] USA. |
Wildlife experts on Friday urged the government to adopt a "middle way" option of licensed hunting to solve the controversial issue of hunting with dogs. Fairer laws were the only way of getting the countryside lobby on-side and making the laws enforceable, the report into hunting said. USA. |
Edward Black. Why the countryside people of Scotland marched in the Liberty and Livelihood March. Scotland. |
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. |
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 not care for hunting, far fewer think it should be made a crime. |
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. |
The Countryside Alliance march in London on 22 September is a fragile coalition of very different interests. |
About 400,000 people descended on London for the Liberty and Livelihood march, bringing the streets of Westminster to a halt. |
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.) |
Hunting green, tweed and flat caps are much in evidence among the countryside protesters on the Liberty and Livelihood march in London. By Megan Lane BBC News Online, in central London. |
Adam Quinney, a Warwickshire livestock farmer, gives his account of the Liberty and Livelihood march. |
The government is listening to the concerns of rural people, says one minister ahead of Sunday's countryside march in London. |
Organisers of the countryside march in London on Sunday say they expect a turn-out of at least 250,000 people. |
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. |
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. |
Snapshot of the many groups who will be marching on Sunday in support of the countryside. |
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 less cruel, than other ways of dealing with it. On the other hand, people are saying we cannot just go on as we always have done. But that doesn't necessarily mean accepting the 'middle way' option." |
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 additional stories on the same day.) |
Leader. Denounces the "breathtakingly patronising" response to the march by Alun Michael, the minister for rural affairs. |
W.F. Deedes. Impressions of the people marching and their reasons for doing so. |
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. |
"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. |
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. |
Josie Appleton. Liberty and livelihood on the march. Oppression breeds anger...and insurrection. |
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 different fox-control methods. California, USA. |
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 Mr Michael's comments represented a Government view. |
"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. |
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. |
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 be seen. Ireland. |
"Today we are making history... They must listen," said the march's main organiser, James Stanford. The march of 407,791 protesters brought London to a standstill. New Zealand. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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