A huge banner is draped over the Angel of the North by pro-hunting campaigners representing the Real CA. Photo.

Tariq Tahir And Hugo Duncan. North Wales Labour MPs are backing a fresh bid for a total ban on fox-hunting. All but one is understood to support the ban - putting them on a collision course with the powerful regional hunting lobby.

Anne Perkins, political correspondent. The committee stage has ended after making significant changes to the bill, and now Commons is expected to change it to outlaw hunting completely.

Helen Carter. Coverage of the competitions between greyhounds and hares, and coursing supporters and protestors. Most hares and all protestors emerged unscathed at the end of the day.

David Charters, Daily Post. Long article about the Waterloo Cup, coursing's major event. Joining enthusiasts and hunt saboteurs alike, he sees no possibility of the differences between these two groups ever being reconciled except perhaps by the ECHR.

Paul Kelbie, Scotland correspondent. The Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) is in disagreement with the Scottish Royal Society for the Protection of Birds about the effect of raptors on grouse.

Ian Herbert, North of England correspondent. Coverage of the hare-coursing event for the top 64 greyhounds which attracted about 10,000 spectators including about 150 protestors.

Jan Disley. Coverage of the traditional baiting sport of coursing protestors and supporters.

Dennis Roddy. The Pittsburgh columnist ridicules the British attempt to outlaw foxhunting based on their Robespierre certitude that pleasure must have a point, and nothing to do with compassion for foxes. He objects to legislation by people who consider everyday life the pursuit of the incorrigible.

Rajeev Syal. A report by James D. Rose in the American academic journal Reviews of Fisheries Science concludes that awareness of pain depends on functions of regions of the cerebral cortex which fish do not possess, contrary to the claims of animal rights supporters.

Daniel Foggo. Profile of Edward Duke, leader of the pro-hunting group known as the Real CA and responsible for their most recent demonstration at the Angel of the North.

Charles Clover, environment editor. Shooting and gamekeeping bodies and pro-shooting MPs warned that if Michael Foster's amendments are passed they would represent a breach of the Government's manifesto commitment to protect shooting and fishing.

Benedict Brogan, political correspondent. Labour's claim of "incontrovertible evidence of cruelty" for deer hunting has been branded "scientifically illiterate" by Professor Patrick Bateson, the Cambridge academic who did the research Alun Michael based his position upon.

Charles Clover, environment editor. MPs voted to ban the use of terriers by gamekeepers to flush foxes to guns or to kill them underground, putting the future of game shooting in doubt.

Neil Tweedie. Coverage of the first day of the 156th meeting of Britain's premier annual hare-coursing event.

Charles Clover, environment editor. A study conducted last autumn in the Outer Hebrides, submitted by Alun Michael the rural affairs minister, argues that there is a strong case for allowing mink hunting to continue as a form of pest control.

Alun Michael was spotted having dinner at Shepherd's with the RSPCA's new chief executive, Jackie Ballard, who recently declared she wanted to ban game shooting next because it is "horrible and nasty". Defra paid for the dinner which was also attended by Richard Ryder, the chairman of the RSPCA's council.

Charles Clover, environment editor. Since sheep dog trials risk putting up hares or foxes, they are now in danger of failing the Government's test of "utility" because they are unnecessary. Field trials for gun dogs have already been caught by the Bill.

Charles Clover, environment editor. In a vote which led to allegations that the Government had "lost control", Alun Michael, the rural affairs minister, declined to vote in defence of his Bill. Peter Bradley, his parliamentary private secretary, and Nick Ainger, the Labour whip, voted for abolition.

A few hours after the vote to ban hare hunting in committee, Michael met John Rolls, the RSPCA's director of communications, Phyllis Campbell-McRae, director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and Doug Batchelor, head of the League Against Cruel Sports.

The year-old ban on fox hunting in Scotland has cost jobs, lost tourism business, has become a legal minefield for farmers, and has adversely affected fox welfare. Before the law, the fit fox more often than not always got away and it was the infirm or old fox who was caught. Now the law requires that all flushed foxes must be shot regardless of age or fitness.

Peter Clough. There was standing room only as more than 200 people packed into an extraordinary meeting of the Exmoor and District Deer Management Society, held to consider the future of red deer in the event of a ban.

Shadow Minister for the Countryside, James Gray, visited the League Against Cruel Sports deer sanctuary at Baronsdown on Exmoor yesterday.