Hunting 'looks same after ban'

Sunday's newspapers

The Sunday papers are filled with pictures of tail-wagging hounds and red-jacketed huntsmen and women testing the ban on hunting with dogs.

A member of the South Durham hunt holds up a dead fox on the front of the Sunday Telegraph and the Sunday Times .

The animal - one of 91 killed on Saturday - was flushed out by hounds, but shot dead legally.

"What ban?" questions the Sunday Times "it looks and smells like foxhunting".

Poker game

As papers report more than 270 hunts rode out in defiance of the hunting ban, the Sunday Express asks what the prime minister will do now.

The horsemen and hounds left the paperwork of another Blairite law blowing gently in their wake, it says.

The Independent on Sunday says the poker game the government is playing with opponents to its Gambling Bill could be about to fold.

A Whitehall source tells the paper the bill is likely to be scrapped for the time being.

Family tree

Michael Howard's family tree is the subject of intense scrutiny by the Sunday Mirror.

The tabloid claims it can exclusively reveal that his Romanian-born father was turned away from Britain in 1937, after arriving on a boat at Dover.

It says he was allowed in, thanks only to the intervention of a Labour MP.

The Mirror keenly points out that people like Mr Howard's father would be sent packing under the Conservatives "get tough" policy on immigration.

Comfy shoes

The problems of planning a royal wedding are closely followed again by the press.

The Mail on Sunday casts more doubt on the legality of the Royal couple marrying in a civil ceremony.

While the People says RAF Tornado jets are to be banned from flying over what it calls the happy couple's "honeymoon lovenest" on the Balmoral estate.

In the Independent, Janet Street-Porter advises that on the big day Camilla needs to grit her teeth, wear comfy shoes and start drinking well before she puts her hat on.