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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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Public spending cuts threaten the stretched foster system
Care services can’t cope since Baby P

By Rebecca Burns A “chronic shortage” of foster services since the death of Baby P may put children in danger unless more foster carers are recruited soon, a leading foster charity has warned. Care services have seen a rise in demand since the death of 17-month-old Baby Peter in August 2007, when social services failed… Read more »

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Bill Nighy was among those urging the government to think again
Nighy leads charge against UK film cuts

By Ian Dunt Some of Britain’s most prominent and respected actors took on the government today, in a desperate bid to save the UK Film Council. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite and Timothy Spall, among over 50 others, urged culture secretary Jeremy Hunt to think again before pushing ahead… Read more »