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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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A painful and powerful vision of Zimbabwe through anticipation and agony. Petina Gappah: An Elegy for Easterly Faber, 16th April 2009, 12.99 Review by Stephen Jones Almost daily, 24-hour newsreels offer us a brief and shattering glimpse into the increasingly anarchic, maniacal state of modern Zimbabwe. For every extra zero latched on to already ludicrous… Read more »
By Ian Dunt The Home Office “exaggerated” the damage to national security by the leaks which prompted the arrest of Damian Green, an influential committee of MPs has found. In the first of various ongoing investigations into the actions which resulted in the arrest of the shadow immigration minister, the home affairs committee expressed concerns… Read more »