Rural Affairs

Three centuries of hunting foxes - 16/09/99
Farmers win sympathy but no cash - 01/02/00
Angry farmers cream Nick Brown - 02/02/00
Blair admits farming crisis - 03/02/00
Countryside 'not in crisis' - 03/02/00
Blair denies bias against countryside - 04/02/00
Blair: No plans for rural ministry - 06/02/00
'Right to roam' to become law - 03/03/00
Prescott curb on urban sprawl - 05/03/00
Tories demand review of planning policy - 06/03/00
Thousands of houses planned for south east - 07/03/00
Prescott crams in 860,000 homes - 08/03/00
Anti-hunting charge rejected - 11/03/00
Brussels gives hedges the chop - 15/03/00
Dairy farmers rally in London - 15/03/00
Railway's loss is rambler's gain as disused tracks are given new life - 18/03/00
Blair pledges £200m for farmers - 30/03/00
Farmers cautious over £200m aid - 30/03/00
Blair gives £200m emergency lifeline to angry farmers - 31/03/00
Tories foxed by Livingstone - 07/04/00
Livingstone's Bill is hunted down - 08/04/00
Rural areas hit hardest by police closures - 17/04/00
Country cousins 'are the poor relations' - 17/04/00
Anti-hunt report scientist attacked [for misinterpreting evidence] - 19/04/00
Anger, not sympathy, as rural communities cope with rising crime - 20/04/00
Hunt ban not important, say Scots - 20/04/00
Cattle priced out of Constable Country - 21/04/00
MPs fear rise of vigilantes in lawless villages - 25/04/00
Plan for 165 waste incinerators 'will blight rural areas' - 01/05/00
Plan to let ramblers roam the riverbanks 'could endanger fish' - 04/05/00
Rural schools to be protected - 09/05/00
Rural jobs 'safe' even if hunting is banned - 12/05/00
Rural communities 'being neglected' - 13/05/00
RSPCA 'put politics before animals' - 14/05/00
Four-day week plan for rural schools - 14/05/00
Martin a victim of 'police retreat' - 17/05/00
MPs call for halt of city migration to countryside - 18/05/00
Farmers forced to take second jobs - 19/05/00
A three-week hunt for the hounds - 20/05/00
Blair scraps idea of new rural affairs ministry - 22/05/00
Labour MPs threaten rebellion over shelving of hunt ban - 23/05/00
Alliance is resigned to seeing some hunts die - 25/05/00
Hunt ban inquiry says 'only' 5,000 jobs will go - 28/05/00
'Fox numbers will soar after hunt ban' - 28/05/00
Labour election pledge remains unfulfilled after three years - 28/05/00
Hedgerow study fights for beeches and 'shaws' - 31/05/00
MP presses for fox hunt ban - 31/05/00
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Villages get caught in the net - 27/05/00
Plans for 'motorway' network for horses - 01/06/00
Every village to get a part-time bobby - 03/06/00
Britain loses 230 miles of coastline to tide of housing - 04/06/00
Return of Hardy's native heath - 04/06/00
Disillusioned farmers seek foreign pastures - 04/06/00
Charter plan for country dwellers - 05/06/00
Prescott faces 'High Noon' over new homes - 07/06/00
150 Labour rebels 'back hunt ban' - 07/06/00
Hunting ban 'would harm wildlife' - 07/06/00
Hunting vote within a year - 09/06/00
Hunt supporters pledge new fight - 09/06/00
Hunt supporters warn of civil disobedience - 10/06/00
Beaufort Hunt 'broke rules on fox breeding' - 10/06/00
'This row is just a smokescreen for Blair's problems' - 10/06/00
How one Labour MP relentlessly pursued his political quarry - 10/06/00
'Ban hunting or we resign' - 11/06/00
Am I to be made a criminal? - by Dominic Lawson - 11/06/00
From now on, politics is a blood sport - 11/06/00
Labour 'will ignore' opponents on homes - 11/06/00
Fury at watchdog's Barclays link - 11/06/00
Minister voices hunt bill fears - 11/06/00
Showdown looms over new houses - 12/06/00
MPs to decide on hunt ban - 12/06/00
Hunt ban unlikely before election - 12/06/00
Hunt report sets scene for long fight - 13/06/00
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MPs row over moonlit walks - 13/06/00
Prince drops in to village pub - 14/06/00 Prince of Wales helps locals to drown sorrows about woes of rural life during unexpected visit
Anti-hunt lobby in pursuit of hundred peers - 14/06/00 Supporters of ban on hunting plan to approach members of House of Lords
Burns raises fear of fox poisoning - 14/06/00 Chairman of Government's hunting inquiry warns of potential illegal culling methods if hunting banned
Right-to-roam laws 'will fuel rural revolt' - 14/06/00 Countryside and Rights of Way Bill: report stage
Bid to curb blots on landscape - 14/06/00 People living in some of Britain's most beautiful areas face tighter controls on property features
Tories say homes are local decision - 14/06/00 Onus would be on councils to assess and meet needs of their local population
[Scots] MPs defy hunt abstention call - 17/06/00
Labour accused of stifling pro-hunt members - 27/06/00 Party leadership plunges into row with its own supporters after cancelling campaign group meeting
Hikers Bill 'is risk to rights' - 27/06/00 Countryside and Rights of Way - second reading
Lifeline for rural post offices - 28/06/00
Hague bulldozes 'Identikit' homes - 29/06/00 Tory leader declares war on uniform buildings with call to end government housebuilding targets
Britain doesn't have to be boxed in - 29/06/00 William Hague's attack on 'Identikit' housing will find sympathy in the shires
WI vows to keep up the pressure - 29/06/00 National Federation of Women's Institutes not satisfied with promise to offer subsidies to rural post offices
Rural post offices to be given cash lifeline - 29/06/00 Network of 10,000 will be subsidised for at least six years
Farming: Subsidies on the Internet - 19/07/00
Red tape is strangling farmers, says Prince - 25/07/00
Army's decision angers farmers - 26/07/00 the Army will no longer feed its troops on British meat
Pig farmers lose High Court case - 27/07/00
Minister admits value of hunts' carcass service - 04/08/00
400,000 new homes for South-West - 04/08/00
Hill farmers face crisis under EU's aid scheme - 04/08/00
Town seeks full-time wardens to restore ruined Cornish idyll [Mullion] - 04/08/00
Hunt ban payouts 'more than £127m' - 07/08/00
New hunting body proposed - 07/08/00
MPs unveil 'middle way' licence plan for hunting - 08/08/00
Holland and Belgium ban British pigs - 12/08/00
Hunt attack victim vows to carry on - 14/08/00
Cameras 'increase rural crime' - 14/08/00
Minister gives rural billboard pledge - 15/08/00
Fears that swine fever has spread - 16/08/00
'Hundreds' of farmers face losing livelihood - 16/08/00
The plague that spells ruin for the pig industry - 16/08/00
Labour renews right to roam vow - 22/08/00
Escape from city causes homes boom - 24/08/00
Half a million more homes 'are needed than first thought' - 24/08/00
Prescott pledges help to farmers who back horses - 26/08/00 "For three years a party that hasn't a clue about the needs of the countryside has ignored them. John Prescott borrowing a pair of wellies for a couple of hours won't change a thing."
Two-thirds of Britons fear countryside is in danger - 28/08/00
Britons hold on to dream of rural idyll - 28/08/00
National Trust snubs hunt lobby in ballot for council - 28/08/00
Public 'tired' of hunting dominating the agenda - 05/09/00
Hill farmers win an extra £4.8m - 15/09/00
French hunting celebration - 18/09/00
Future looks even worse for farmers - 19/09/00
Labour bans conference reception by hunt group - 19/09/00
Country sports group protests over 'ban' at party race day - 25/09/00
Labour 'to blame for farms crisis' - 03/10/00
Farmers' profits plunge - 12/10/00
Country life mystifies primary pupils - 12/10/00
Let's keep the country in the dark - 14/10/00
Country has the fewest jobless - 17/10/00
3.8m homes plan is 'dictatorial' - 18/10/00
Rural crime fight held up by red tape - 18/10/00
Countryside to march again? - 19/10/00
500,000 may join protest over hunting ban - 20/10/00
Countryside faces new crisis with shortage of firefighters - 11/12/00
Blair will make hunting ban an election pledge - 14/01/01
Pro-hunt vigil underway - 15/01/01
MPs set to ban fox hunting - 17/01/01
MPs vote for total ban on hunting - 18/01/01
Shooting and fishing are next, MPs told - 18/01/01
Ban predicted within two years - 18/01/01
Rival camps call on support from animal kingdom - 18/01/01
'The higher the stakes, the harder we will fight' - 18/01/01 Compared with the septicaemia, cold, blood loss and gangrene suffered by shot foxes which got away or the cruelty of poisoning rats, "hunting pales into insignificance"
Hunting ban signals an end for pointing - 18/01/01
Whatever Labour says, it can't pretend a ban is moral - 18/01/01 It is to the eternal disgrace of Tony Blair and the Labour Party that they have consecrated so much parliamentary time to stamping out a minority pursuit, with no gain in view, either for animals or people
The hunt bites back - 18/01/01
Hunts defiant in face of defeat - 18/01/01
Hunting: How they voted - 18/01/01
Pro-hunt activists vow to fight on - 18/01/01
Environment Minister Michael Meacher avoids 'hunting' march - 25/01/01
Tories pledge watchdog to protect rural life - 03/02/01
Hunt saboteur is bitten by cornered fox - 05/02/01
Labour accused of hunting Bill ploy - 09/02/01
Hunting Bill to be changed to protect sewer rat catchers - 09/02/01
The vast army of people who live for hunting - 10/02/01
Prince to people: 'I'll sell up to Bill Gates' - 11/02/01
Labour's Hunt Bill going to the dogs - 14/02/01
MPs given free vote on future of mink hunting - 16/02/01
Forget us at your peril, warn rural protesters - 17/02/01
Hunting ban in Scotland is delayed by Tory Bill - 17/02/01
Hunt supporters lobby Labour conference - 17/02/01
Labour not in tune with rural issues, says peer - 24/02/01 the Labour Party is "grounded in urban culture"
Marching for Liberty - 24/02/01 on 18th March - see www.march-info.org
Rural revolt fears amid slaughter - 16/03/01
Lifeline for rural communities - 20/03/01
Rural package at a glance - 20/03/01
Blair trails behind by a country mile - 23/03/01 Labour is the third party of rural Britain
It is mad to hold an election while foot and mouth rages - by John Major - 23/03/01
Peers vote on future of hunting - 26/03/01
Peers vote to reject all curbs on hunting - 27/03/01
Animal movement ban extended - 27/02/01
Police quit countryside as 25pc of stations go - 26/03/01 more than 600 police stations have closed in the last decade
Lords defy MPs on hunting - 27/03/01
Only the ghosts are out on the moor - 28/03/01 Exmoor
Americans stay away from 'closed Britain' - 28/03/01
Anti-hunt MPs want Blair to get tough with peers - 28/03/01
RSPCA anti-hunt advert 'misleading' - 18/04/01
This is village life [in Exford] when the hunt is banned - 22/04/01 There have been redundancies, and more are inevitable - Even the school might be threatened
Coniston laments its missing tourists - 26/04/01
Support for hunting reaches 10-year high - 27/04/01
Farmers to be 'keepers of countryside' - 28/04/01
Does rural diversification equal golf course? - 28/04/01
Blair tries to heal rift with countryside - 04/05/01 £10 million will be invested in business consultants who will tour the country giving free advice to farmers
Labour 'taking anti-hunt group's cash for policies' - 04/05/01
Angling trade hit hard by restrictions - 04/05/01
This election is between town and country - 06/05/01
Glorious Twelfth cancelled in areas affected by virus - 08/05/01
£24m rescue package for hard-hit rural firms - 08/05/01
Rural firms protest over disease aid - 09/05/01
Rural businesses demand £12bn to ease the misery - 10/05/01
Labour gets human rights warning over hunting ban - 12/05/01
Police call for return of village bobbies - 15/05/01
We must return officers to villages, says police leader - 15/05/01
Labour moves away from foxhunting ban - 20/05/01
Labour shuns rural wasteland - 26/05/01
Hague woos rural vote - 27/05/01

Hunt battle set to return - 17/06/01
Ban all children from working on farms, says union - 18/06/01
Ramblers will wreck skylark's habitat' - 20/06/01
Foot and mouth brigadier battles for countryside - 09/07/01
Campaigners press to save rural garages - 09/07/01
Scottish Hunting bill hits major setback - 11/07/01
Prince unveils rural action plan - 24/07/01
Head of rural affairs gives small farmers little hope - 12/08/01 Lord Haskins, the Irish multi-millionaire appointed by his friend Mr Blair as "rural affairs co-ordinator", began by betraying astonishing naivete about his new role
Ramblers go where stalkers may not tread - 26/08/01
Foot and Mouth Disease 'threatens rural life' - 29/08/01
Terrorism Bills may delay legislation to ban hunting with hounds - 12/10/01
Hunting is best for fox welfare, vet poll reveals - 14/10/01
Don't ban lead waterfowl shot, say landowners - 18/10/01
Working dogs 'help preserve rare wildlife' - 07/11/01
Labour breaks promise by chasing rural firms for tax - 02/12/01
MSPs reject payout for hunt workers - 05/12/01
Landowners condemn 'freeze' on pasture - 15/12/01 ministers are under criticism from their own civil servants for ignoring the views of the people who own the countryside
Village pubs must diversify, says prince - 17/12/01
Prince toasts the village pub - 17/12/01
Ministers rebuked for shunning countryside - 23/12/01
Boxing Day hunts avoid protests - 26/12/01
Hunt supporters 200,000 Saboteurs 300 - 27/12/01
Hunting ban 'breaches rights' - 14/02/02
UK 'still at risk' from foot and mouth - 18/02/02
Secrecy lingers on after list of official blunders - 18/02/02
Soaring deer population puts wildlife under threat - 25/02/02
Hunting decision soon - Blair - 27/02/02
Blair offers MPs the chance of early vote on hunting ban - 28/02/02
Hunting vote set for March - 28/02/02
Exmoor Park report fears hunting ban - 12/03/02 the government has lost the trust of people living in the country
Blunkett backs hunting compromise - 17/03/02
Blunkett is backing the middle way on hunting to cut strife - 18/03/02
'We are fed up and want to be left in peace' - 18/03/02
Blair to vote for hunt ban - 18/03/02
Hunting: what are the options? - 18/03/02
Lords rejects MPs' vote for hunting ban - 20/03/02
Peer warns of a war with countryside - 20/03/02
Inspired by memories of 'The Captain' - 20/03/02
Blair absent from debate on sending in Marines - 21/03/02 Labour's idea of a "Prime Minister" was absent from last night's emergency Commons debate on sending 1,700 Royal Marines to fight in Afghanistan because he gave priority to reaching a deal with Labour MPs over banning foxhunting!!!
Labour goes in for the kill - 22/03/02
The hounding of liberty - 22/03/02 Labour seem almost completely indifferent to the questions of what laws are for, and how they affect people
Hunts prepare for the marching season - 22/03/02
Countryside threatens a rebellion - 22/03/02
Battle cry as duke leads pursuit of 'enemy within' - 26/03/02 last legal fox hunt in Scotland
Alliance plans London march - 28/03/02
Pro-hunt march 'will attract 500,000' - 28/03/02
Clay shoots face planning curbs - 30/03/02
Hunts 'to sue Government if ban infringes human rights' - 04/04/02
Beckett is barred from conference over hunting ban - 14/04/02
Labour MPs back hunting ban move - 18/04/02
Right to roam maps lead to complaints - 20/04/02
Hunters converge on London - 22/04/02
Hunts show anger at Blair - 23/04/02
Schemes failing to save wildflower meadows - 13/05/02
English meadows 'declining fast' - 13/05/02
Foxes 'will suffer' from hunting ban - 24/05/02 says a former anti-hunting activist
Rural economy 'must be competitive' - 24/05/02
Hunt group vows to get tough - 27/05/02 the Real Countryside Alliance
I can see it now - a campaign to free the budgerigars - 27/05/02 Bill Deedes
Judge attacks hunt march ban - 27/06/02
Fox attacks sleeping baby - 01/07/02
Baby 'attacked by fox' - 01/07/02
Hunt supporters fight Act in court - 03/07/02
Holyrood's power to ban hunts challenged - 06/07/02
Hunt supporters ride on Parliament in spirit of '49 - 11/07/02 80 riders in tweeds and hunting pink rode through London yesterday in a re-enactment of the 1949 farmers' protest against moves to end their sport
Hunt ban 'threat to 15,000 horses and 20,000 dogs' - 11/07/02
M-way hunt protest - 12/07/02
The only way to save hunting is to inflict pain on Labour - 12/07/02
Housing: Homes for key workers - 16/07/02 where will Prescott build his 200,000 new homes?
Hop aboard for Tony's rural tour - 21/07/02 Tony Blair is to embark on a "morale-boosting" tour of the Great British Countryside
The campaign fires burn brightly in the shires - 23/07/02 protests are being staged by hunt supporters
Court upholds hunting ban in Scotland - 31/07/02
Hunt alliance loses 11th-hour stand - 01/08/02
Pro-hunting protest targets RSPCA - 08/08/02
Sheepdog video strikes it rich - 09/08/02
Tories threaten to topple hunt ban - 29/08/02
Saboteurs target hunt supporters' homes - 03/09/02
The Countryside Alliance has three days to save fox hunting - 06/09/02
No 10 told not to rush hunt ban - 10/09/02 a quick compromise Bill on hunting would not attract broad public support, the chairman of the Government's hunting inquiry said
Hunt ban will end in chaos, say police - 15/09/02
Prince Charles tells Blair: 'Farmers are being treated worse than blacks or gays' - 22/09/02
I am marching today in defence of our freedom - 22/09/02 By Iain Duncan Smith


Thousands march for countryside - 22/09/02
Marching for 'a better future' - 22/09/02
Fighting talk behind festive spirit - 22/09/02
Police praise 'civilised' protest - 22/09/02
Huge turnout for countryside march - 22/09/02
In pictures: The countryside march - 22/09/02
Huge rural march grips London - 22/09/02
Prince Charles tells Blair: 'Farmers are being treated worse than blacks or gays' - 22/09/02
407,791 voices cry freedom - 23/09/02
The long march - 23/09/02 Rather like the crowds at the Queen Mother's lying-in-state, the marchers represent a Britain that is often overlooked
Were you listening, Tony Blair? - 23/09/02 I have never known a protest quite like this one, because it managed to be good-humoured and angry at the same time, much angrier than its predecessors. Lots of posters lumped Mr Blair with Robert Mugabe, the only other world leader currently trying to take on white farmers
Countryside will 'erupt in fury' if it is not heard, warns alliance - 23/09/02
Heart of the capital beats with undying spirit of the country - 23/09/02 the sheer mass of people made the jaw drop... farmers repeatedly spoke of hunting's place at the heart of their communities... the proposed ban is symbolic of a Government ignorant of rural ways
Tolpuddle and Aldermaston are outpaced - 23/09/02 the Liberty and Livelihood March was the largest single protest staged in Britain
Voices of the countryside baffle minister - 23/09/02 400,000 people say the Government doesn't understand the problems of rural areas, but Alun Michael doesn't get it - and unfortunately he's the rural affairs minister
Rural lobby send open letter to Blair - 23/09/02
400,000 march in London: hardliners warn Blair of civil unrest - 23/09/02
It's Livestock and Two Smoking Barrels as country goes to town - 23/09/02
'Money matters but freedom brought us here' - 23/09/02
Farmers are more victimised than blacks, says Prince - 23/09/02
Celebrities rally to the call of the alliance's hunting horn - 23/09/02
Private protest for Parker Bowles - 23/09/02
Banners that bite - 24/09/02 Born to Hunt, Forced to March, Ready to Fight etc
Palace defends prince's letters - 25/09/02
Ignore marchers' anger at your peril, Mr Blair - 29/09/02
Taxpayer will foot bill for groups to oppose hunts - 16/12/02 after £1 million was paid to the Labour Party before the last election by the Political Animal Lobby
Hunting plans 'won't die in ditch' - 16/12/02
Pro-hunters in Angel rallying call - 13/02/03
Hunting 'important for countryside' - 28/05/03 landowners plant and maintain more woodland and hedgerows if they are involved in field sports... those who both hunt and run game-bird shoots conserve the most woodland cover
Shooting 'maims as many foxes as it kills' - 05/06/03
Labour gives in to RSPCA on hunting - 16/06/03
Hunting Bill going back to Commons - 19/06/03
Blair may oppose ban on all hunting - 28/06/03
Anti-hunt fanatics - 28/06/03 Blair wants to be seen as hostile to hunting, without losing the rural vote
Analysis: Blair concedes defeat - 01/07/03 he has ordered his hapless minister Alun Michael to execute one of the most humiliating U-turns of this parliament
Farming exodus as city dwellers move in - 04/08/03
Black woman is new face of the hunt - 04/09/03
Peers debate Hunting Bill - 16/09/03
Peers delay hunting bill - 29/10/03
Hunt supporters defiant over ban - 01/11/03
Hunt protesters show united front - 01/11/03
English Nature 'to be abolished' - 04/11/03
Radical change for rural areas - 11/11/03
Rural agencies set to merge - 12/11/03
Hunting ban backlash fears - 18/11/03
English lowland decline 'goes on' - 10/02/04
Majority vote to defy a Labour ban on hunting - 24/07/04
'No change' in fox populations - 28/07/04
Politics and the countryside - 26/08/04
Hunt debate 'threatens key bills' - 05/09/04
Hunting ban faces two-year delay - 08/09/04
Hunt protest outside Blair's home - 10/09/04
Ministers and Labour rebels in Hunting Bill deal - 15/09/04
MPs vote to ban hunting with dogs - 15/09/04
Protest as hunt ban debated - 15/09/04
Now the real hunt battle starts - 15/09/04
Hunt ban: how your MP voted - 16/09/04
Hunt demo complaints investigated - 16/09/04
Hunt supporters step up protests - 25/09/04
On the trail of Alun Michael - 27/09/04
The dogs are let out - 28/09/04
Pro-hunt protesters disrupt conference - 29/09/04
How we did it, by huntswoman who entered the Labour den - 02/10/04
Hunting Bill moves to next stage - 12/10/04
Viewpoints: Countryside Matters - 14/10/04
Peers try to save licensed hunts - 26/10/04
Hain hit with eggs in hunt demo - 27/10/04
Hunting Bill back on the agenda - 11/11/04
Minister urges hunting compromise - 12/11/04
Fox hunting ban looks inevitable - 17/11/04
Lords reject ban on fox hunting - 17/11/04
Battle continues for hunt lobby - 17/11/04
Mixed emotions in hunting town - 18/11/04
Hunt ban's impact on Blair - 18/11/04
Fox-hunting set to become illegal - 18/11/04
Hunt ban forced through Commons - 19/11/04
Legal challenge to ban on hunting - 19/11/04
Government finally admits: hunt ban is part of the class struggle - 21/11/04
Hunt ban not big issue - Prescott - 23/11/04
Hidden cost of the hunt ban - 05/12/04
BBC row over 'bias' in wildlife calendar - 10/12/04
Mass hunt protests to mark ban - 10/12/04
Blair 'won't stop hunt ban delay' - 23/12/04
Turnout high at Christmas hunts - 27/12/04
Rural healthcare need 'neglected' - 21/01/05
Court hears arcane hunting debate - 24/01/05
Hunting ban 'not a true' Act of Parliament - 26/01/05
Pro-hunters claim ban 'invalid' - 26/01/05
High Court upholds ban on hunting - 28/01/05
Final hunts expected ahead of ban - 17/02/05
Tomorrow hunting is banned: this injustice cannot endure - 17/02/05 In Scotland the ban resulted in twice as many foxes bneing killed
Ban on hunting comes into force - 18/02/05
'Modern life changing' as hunts end - 18/02/05
Princes to 'wait and see' on hunt ban - 19/02/05
Four hunts join forces in protest - 19/02/05
Sadness turns to determination - 19/02/05
First arrests under new hunt laws - 19/02/05
In pictures: defying the ban - 19/02/05
Fallout over hunt ban's first day - 20/02/05
Countryside dalliance - 10/04/05
Hunt ban 'has caused rise in fox suffering' - 03/05/05 Half of foxes shot with guns are wounded, not killed
National Parks target minorities - 19/05/05
Hunt campaign loses court battle - 29/07/05
Government to 'grow green belt' - 03/08/05
English countryside 'almost gone' - 08/09/05
Union warns of 'farming exodus' - 15/11/05
Countryside boosts mental health - 04/01/06
Hunting with hounds and a duster - 12/02/06 This week marks the first anniversary since hunting with hounds became illegal throughout Britain. But hunt activities continue and no-one has been prosecuted
Women Ahead of the Field - 13/02/06 The introduction of the hunting ban has sparked record numbers of female mounted followers and more women masters
Foot and mouth efforts 'failed' - 18/02/06
Rural policy 'is more of a mess than before foot and mouth' - 18/02/06
Rural recovery policies 'failed' - 18/02/06
The farmer's view: 'Defra doesn't want to understand us' - 18/02/06
100,000 join hunts for ban anniversary - 18/02/06

Here we go again - this time it's bird flu