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BASC issues warning to Minister ahead of final Grouse Bill debate

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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What are the natural capital benefits of shooting?

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has published its inaugural assessment of the Natural Capital benefits of shooting. Natural Capital can be defined as the sum of financial and social benefits we get from our natural environment. This concept has increasingly shaped both international and national environmental policies and is at the core… Read more »

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Martin McGuinness rejects claims he is a British spy
McGuinness dismisses spy claims as rubbish

Sinn Fein chief negotiator Martin McGuinness has dismissed allegations that he is a British spy as a “load of rubbish”. The Mid-Ulster MP was speaking for the first time since former British army intelligence officer Martin Ingram made the allegations in a Sunday newspaper. They come just months after former Sinn Fein official Denis Donaldson… Read more »

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Health minister Lord Warner clarifies true cost of NHS IT programme
NHS computer system ‘to cost £20bn’

The government’s new IT system for the NHS is two years behind schedule and could cost up to £20 billion, Lord Warner has admitted. The health minister said that although the contracts to provide the new programme were to budget, about £6.2 billion, the cost of staff training, buying computer equipment on the ground and… Read more »