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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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David Cameron addresses the troops in Afghanistan
Cameron wants wartime mentality

By politics.co.uk staff David Cameron has called on the British people to pay the same respects to service personnel as was seen during the world wars of the 20th century. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, the prime minister argued it was a “social responsibility” as well as a government responsibility to support Britain’s armed… Read more »

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Tory MP was hit by train on Thursday evening
Tory MP ‘in failed suicide bid’

By politics.co.uk staff Former shadow minister David Ruffley is recovering after what appears to have been a suicide attempt in a London railway station. The Bury St Edmunds MP was seen by eyewitnesses to have jumped in front of a Gatwick Express train at London Victoria station on Thursday evening. He survived with only minor… Read more »