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BASC was pleased to host the Secretary of State for Defra, Steve Barclay, at the inaugural Northern Gamekeepers’ Conference on Friday 8 March in the historic grounds of the Swinton Estate in Masham, North Yorkshire. The main hall at the Swinton Park Hotel was standing room only as gamekeepers from across the north of England… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has issued a letter to Jim Fairlie, Scotland’s Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, urging for further amendments to be made at the final stage of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill. It comes as the Bill nears the final stage of a debate on March 19… Read more »
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Prime Minister Tony Blair’s popularity rating took a battering after the shock resignation of former international development minister Clare Short, according to a new ICM poll. Although the poll of 1,000 adults appearing in today’s Guardian newspaper (interviewed between May 16-18) shows a slip in the PM’s rating, the Labour party still enjoyed a 12-point… Read more »
The UK’s first key hole heart bypass operation has been carried out at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, demonstrating that this less invasive technique is a viable alternative to traditional open heart surgery. Mr Roberto Casula and his colleagues made only four small incisions in their patient’s chest through which pencil width robotic arms, controlling… Read more »