Fox-hunting supporters vow to fight ban
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LONDON - Fox hunting supporters on Wednesday pledged to mount a swift legal challenge and a campaign of civil disobedience if Parliament bans the time-honored pursuit in the coming days.
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The Countryside Alliance was today launching a high court challenge to the ban on foxhunting, which was pushed through parliament last night despite the implacable opposition of the House of Lords.
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Calls for a law allowing licensed fox hunting instead of an outright ban are set to go to a vote in the Lords.
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Anyone wondering why President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have been talking up hunting and fishing in recent days need look no further than two anti-logging petitions widely circulated by a sportsmen's association in Alaska.
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LONDON  - Britain outlawed fox hunting in England and Wales on Thursday as elected legislators won a dramatic standoff with the House of Lords to ban a popular country sport that is despised by many urbanites. Some hunting supporters vowed to defy the ban.
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Scuffles broke out when some 250 opponents of a ban on fox hunting in England and Wales tried to breach police lines outside a Labour Party fund-raising event in Wales.
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More than 250 hunts will meet legally the day after the ban on hunting with dogs comes into force, campaigners say.
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Security was stepped up around parliament and Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed to urgently review safety after hunting supporters broke in during a debate on banning foxhunting with hounds.
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The British goverment has negotiated a secret legal deal that will allow fox hunting to continue next year, despite a ban passed in parliament, The Times newspaper alleged on Thursday.
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Hunt supporters say they are prepared to go to prison for flouting the law which will ban their pastime.
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Supporters of fox hunting from Wales travel to Westminster for a rally as MPs prepare to vote on a ban.
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The British goverment has negotiated a secret legal deal that will allow fox hunting to continue next year, despite a ban passed in parliament, The Times newspaper alleged.
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Legislation to ban fox hunting in England and Wales will be rushed through the House of Commons next Wednesday, the government announced.
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Defeated in Parliament, supporters of fox hunting went to court Friday to try to overturn a legislative ban on their more than 300-year-old sport and vowed a campaign of civil disobedience in the run-up to next year's general election.
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If hunting is banned in Britain, the pro-hunt lobby says its supporters will continue to hunt illegally.
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The government faced looming battles with supporters of fox hunting in both the courts and the countryside after ramming through a law banning the centuries-old blood sport.
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A ban on hunting is expected to be forced through using the Parliament Act after opposition from peers.