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During last night’s late night sitting in the House of Lords, running beyond 2am, peers voted to allow women to continue to access abortion services at home. Prior to Covid, women were required to attend a clinic in person to access abortion pills. But since then, they have been able to receive the pills by post. The… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has committed to contributing £75,000 towards Natural England’s hen harrier recovery work over the next three years, via its Legacy Fund. Three annual payments of £25,000 will aid Natural England’s objectives of winter roost monitoring, support and education around diversionary feeding, and the southern reintroduction of the species. The three-year agreement follows… Read more »
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The UK government will slam sanctions on Putin’s regime, the health secretary said this morning. This follows the launch of an effective invasion of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions yesterday evening as Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered tanks across the border into provinces he officially recognised as independent from Ukraine on Monday afternoon. Putin… Read more »
Small business minister Paul Scully has defended the government’s plans to scrap free Covid testing from 31 March. Scully argued that the Government must take into account whether the tests are worth the £2 billion in spending currently allocated toward them per month. When quizzed over the plans by TalkRadio this morning, he argued: “We… Read more »
