BBC: Head to Head: Hunting 'compromise'
The government looks set to offer a compromise to pro-hunters and their anti-hunt counterparts with a licensing system banning some hunts but allowing others. Pro-ban Lib Dem MP Norman Baker and pro-hunting Tory MP Michael Fabricant discuss whether a government compromise will work.

BBC: Head to head: New hunting proposals
Tim Lewin, a hunt master at the Ledbury Hunt in Gloucestershire, and Josey Sharrad, fox hunting campaigner for the Campaign for the Protection of Hunted Animals, respond to plans to licence hunting with dogs.

BBC: Hunting compromise outlined
Unveiling the proposals, Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael recommended a complete ban on stag hunting and hare coursing. He said that whether hunting with dogs was allowed in other cases would be judged on a case-by-case basis by an independent registrar.

BBC: Hunting debate attracts angry demo
The bill was given its second reading by 368 votes to 155, but there was scant support for the proposals from Labour backbenchers who are determined to ignore the principles of utility and cruelty and amend it into a total ban.

Birmingham Post: Hunters vow to return
Shahid Naqvi. David Palmer, joint master of the Worcestershire Hunt: "The protesters are very welcome to come and present their view but they have an outdated argument against what they see as the toffs enjoying themselves, which is just not true."

Derbyshire Evening Telegraph: Foxed the lot!
The new Government proposals to control foxhunting appeared to please neither side of the heated debate in Derbyshire yesterday. Those who support the controversial sport and those vehemently against it were united in their opposition to the new scheme.

Financial Times: PM risks backbench row over hunting proposals
John Mason and Krisha Guha. Tony Blair risked a new confrontation with his backbenchers yesterday after ministers announced fox-hunting should be regulated rather than banned outright. The move, amid widespread unease in Labour ranks over foundation hospitals, top-up fees and Iraq, was attacked by anti-hunting MPs.

Financial Times: Stalemate on foxhunting must end, says minister
James Blitz, political editor. Interviewed on Sky News's Sunday with Adam Boulton programme, Mr Michael was asked whether, ultimately, the government would invoke the Parliament Act. He said: "What we want to do is have the bill scrutinised and improved, but at the end of the day, if it came to that, we have made it clear, there is a manifesto commitment, that we will enable parliament to reach a conclusion on this.

Guardian Politics: Full text: Commons statement on hunting
"Most people want to see cruelty prevented. They also want farmers, gamekeepers and others who have to manage the land to be able to do so."

Guardian: Boxing Day hunts and protests draw thousands
NOP found that 41% of voters supported a "middle way" solution of regulating hunts that struck a "balance between civil liberties and animal welfare". Mori found 80% of British people thought hunting with dogs was cruel, but didn't ask whether it should be banned.

Guardian: Government hunts for a compromise
Michael White, political editor. If passed by both Houses of Parliament, which are as divided as the wider public, the hunting bill would ban hare coursing and stag-hunting while protecting angling and shooting as well as falconry. Ratting with terrier packs and rabbiting will be allowed under the bill, not least because alternatives such as poisoning and trapping are deemed more cruel. Rats are a threat to people and livestock, ministers point out.

Guardian: Hunt bill protest gathers pace
Anne Perkins, political correspondent. A significant minority of Labour backbenchers are so angry that the government has backed off a total ban, using the Parliament Act to force the legislation through the Lords if necessary, that they will abstain on the second reading.

Guardian: Hunting compromise woos Labour rebels
Nicholas Watt and Rebecca Allison. "The bill will end the sport of fox hunting because it will only be allowed as a form of pest control," one government source said. "You will only be allowed to hunt if you have a pink jacket with Rentokil on the back."

Guardian: Ministers could join revolt against rules to allow hunt
Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. Labour opponents of hunting reacted furiously when Mr Michael indicated that their overwhelming opposition to may count for nothing.

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