Damaging rifts within the rural lobby threaten to overshadow today's countryside march, which has been billed as the biggest civil liberties protest ever seen in Britain. On the eve of the march, which is forecast to draw more than 300,000 protesters into London, a coalition of high-profile countryside groups claimed the event had been hijacked by the pro-hunting fraternity. Conservation groups, rural poverty organisations and countryside workers - representing almost 1.4 million members, including the Council for the Protection of Rural England and the National Federation of Women's Institutes - voiced their frustration. Their concerns were backed by the...