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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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Scottish peer and former MP Lord Monro dies
Former Scottish MP Lord Monro dies

The former Scottish MP and Conservative peer, Lord Monro of Langholm, has died at the age of 85. Hector Monro was MP for Dumfries for 33 years, before entering the House of Lords as a life peer in 1997. Born in October 1922 in Edinburgh, he was educated at Canford school and then King’s College… Read more »

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Home Office introduces new offence of downloading and possessing violent pornography
Ministers act against violent porn

People downloading violent and extreme pornographic material could be jailed for up to three years under new proposals announced by the Home Office today. Minister Vernon Coaker said he would bring forward new legislation to make it illegal for the first time to possess pornography showing scenes of extreme sexual violence. The news will be… Read more »