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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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Cold water poured on Miliband’s ‘Clause 4’ moment

By Peter Wozniak Speculation that Ed Miliband’s plans to limit individual political donations would mean a weakening of Labour’s ties with trades unions has been doused. The Labour leader is currently engaging in a lengthy review of both its policy and funding arrangements. The party’s outgoing general secretary Ray Collins had implied Labour would call… Read more »

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`Well, what a year!`
Clegg: We’ll prove them wrong

By politics.co.uk staff Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has offered a defiant new year’s message to party members. The deputy prime minister said his party was “delivering on every single one” of his party’s four manifesto priorities in a message composed while on a Christmas break in Spain. The coalition government’s junior party has been… Read more »