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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has raised the importance of recognising the challenges faced by gamekeepers and the physical and mental health benefits of shooting within the Environment Food Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee’s mental health inquiry. The wide-ranging inquiry launched in November 2021 will set out recommendations about how the government can… Read more »
The government’s new environmental land management schemes are an open door for management practices undertaken for shooting and conservation, says the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The two new schemes unveiled by the Secretary of State for Defra George Eustice at the Oxford Farming Conference will play a pivotal role in the Governments’… Read more »
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The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) is to disaffiliate from the Labour party, it has announced today. The union is angry with the direction of the party under Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, accusing him of a “factional internal war”. In a statement released this afternoon it berates Sir Keir for failing to… Read more »
Shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds has said Labour would invest in neighbourhood policing, establish new domestic violence laws and would establish a new Child Exploitation Register in his keynote speech at the party conference today in Brighton. He opened by discussing how his childhood as the son of a Welsh steelworker led him to the… Read more »
