Angry protest outside Parliament as MPs begin debate on fox-hunting

HUNDREDS of hunt supporters and animal welfare groups in London last night staged a noisy demonstration outside Parliament as MPs resumed their impassioned debate on fox-hunting.

Some protesters centred their anger on an effigy of Tony Blair and set light to it in the middle of Parliament Square. A number of other pro-hunters fed the fire with newspapers before police moved the crowds away.

Police later said there were six arrests in total.