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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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MP hospitalised after taking on gang

By politics.co.uk staff A Tory MP has been hospitalised after a confrontation with a gang in Dorset. Former army captain Tobias Ellwood, 42, asked the group of men to stop kicking a football around the town centre at which point they threw the ball at his face from point blank range. When the shadow culture… Read more »

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PM on defensive over Iraq hostages

By politics.co.uk staff The British government faces growing pressure for not having acted sooner over the five hostages kidnapped in Iraq. Over the weekend the remains of two of them, Jason Creswell and Jason Swindlehurst, were delivered to the British Embassy in Baghdad. The pair had been kidnapped two years ago in the Iraqi capital… Read more »