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• BBC Breakfast: Countryside march

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/2273939.stm
  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.

• BBC News - Farmer's diary: Marching for our future

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2275574.stm
  Adam Quinney, a Warwickshire livestock farmer, gives his account of the Liberty and Livelihood march.

• BBC News - Fighting talk behind festive spirit

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2274269.stm
  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.

• BBC News - Hunters united - for now

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2268552.stm
  The Countryside Alliance march in London on 22 September is a fragile coalition of very different interests.

• BBC News - In pictures: The Countryside March

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2274358.stm
  About 400,000 people descended on London for the Liberty and Livelihood march, bringing the streets of Westminster to a halt.

• BBC News - MPs 'are listening' to countryside

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2272404.stm
  The government is listening to the concerns of rural people, says one minister ahead of Sunday's countryside march in London.

• BBC: Huge turnout for countryside march

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2274129.stm
  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.)

• BBC: London braced for huge protest

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2272292.stm
  Organisers of the countryside march in London on Sunday say they expect a turn-out of at least 250,000 people.

• Cape Times: Rural folk and fox hunters hound London

  http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/rural-folk-and-fox-hunters-hound-london-1.94951
  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.

• CBC News: Huge rally defends UK fox hunting

  http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/huge-rally-defends-u-k-fox-hunting-1.316831
  "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.

• Guardian: 400,000 bring rural protest to London

  http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/sep/23/hunting.ruralaffairs2
  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."

• Guardian: Countryside sounds call to arms

  http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/sep/22/ruralaffairs.hunting
  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.

• Guardian: From landowners to pony clubs

  http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/sep/21/hunting.ruralaffairs
  Snapshot of the many groups who will be marching on Sunday in support of the countryside.

• Hello!: Celebrities join countryside marchers in huge demo

  http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2002/09/23/ruralmarch/
  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.

• Irish Independent: Countryside protesters take over London

  http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/countryside-protesters-take-over-london-26035437.html
  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.

• New York Times: 400,000 Rural Protesters Take to London Streets

  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/23/world/400000-rural-protesters-take-to-london-streets.html
  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.

• New York Times: Blood Sport as Politics

  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/opinion/blood-sport-as-politics.html
  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.

• New Zealand Herald: Rural rights protest draws 400,000 to London

  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=2848444
  "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.

• People's Daily: Tens of Thousands Demonstrate in London for Rural Rights

  http://en.people.cn/200209/23/eng20020923_103687.shtml
  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.

• Scoop: UK Country Mobilization

  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0209/S00151.htm
  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.

• Scotsman: Cheers as saltires join the voices of protest

  http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/cheers-as-saltires-join-the-voices-of-protest-1-622303
  Edward Black. Why the countryside people of Scotland marched in the Liberty and Livelihood March. Scotland.

• Telegraph: A day for 815,582 sensible shoes

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1408099/A-day-for-815582-sensible-shoes.html
  W.F. Deedes. Impressions of the people marching and their reasons for doing so.

• Telegraph: Labour defies country march

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1408105/Labour-defies-country-march.html
  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.)

• Telegraph: What will make them listen?

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/3581944/What-will-make-them-listen.html
  Leader. Denounces the "breathtakingly patronising" response to the march by Alun Michael, the minister for rural affairs.

• The Age: A hunting they'll go

  http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/22/1032055034873.html
  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.

• The Telegraph Calcutta India

  http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020923/asp/foreign/index.asp
  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.

 

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