1.   Hunting foxes is no longer an acceptable excuse for being late for work in any important American city.

2.   In Britain anybody who hunts foxes must be prepared to be regularly abused and occasionally attacked by protesters.

3.   In the end, they did not and time ran out before the fox could be hunted down.

4.   The fox has been hunted, haunted, beaten.

5.   Opinion polls consistently have shown that most Britons oppose using hounds to hunt foxes.

6.   The government has asked lawmakers to vote on whether hunting foxes, stags and hares with packs of hounds should continue freely, be regulated or be banned altogether.