Most people oppose ban on hunting, poll finds - Telegraph

MPs clashed over fox-hunting last night as they approached the first parliamentary hurdle to a ban of the blood sport. They were expected to overwhelmingly back the Hunting Bill in a free vote at second reading after nearly six hours of impassioned argument.

The government came under pressure from the House of Lords yesterday to disclose whether it would force a fox-hunting ban on to the statute book despite their opposition.

WITH her pinstripe suit and neat haircut, Dawn Preston is hardly a typical extremist. She works in that most respectable of institutions, a high street bank, has a degree and, like millions of her contemporaries, is burdened with buying a home.

RIVER banks and heathlands will become the new battlegrounds in the war between sports enthusiasts and animal rights extremists.