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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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Council tenants should be allowed to relocate
Tories lure social tenants with ‘right to move’ pledge

By Alex Stevenson Affordable and social housing tenants would be handed a ‘right to move’ by a new Conservative government, shadow housing minister Grant Shapps announced today. Under Tory plans unveiled in their latest green paper good tenants would be given the right to force their landlord to sell their current property and use the… Read more »

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Televised: Expenses inquiry to be filmed
MPs’ expenses probe to be televised

By politics.co.uk staff The inquiry into MPs’ allowances is to be televised while it conducts its review. The move comes as emotions run high in parliament, with MPs increasingly convinced the drip-feed of revelations could fundamentally undermine parliamentary democracy. This weekend chancellor Alistair Darling and defence secretary Geoff Hoon joined home secretary Jacqui Smith and… Read more »