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Banning snares including modern humane cable restraints in Wales will remove an essential conservation tool and could result in local extinctions, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation has warned. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), which has its head office in north Wales, is now calling on the Welsh Government to rethink proposed… Read more »
Phoenix Insights, the think tank addressing the challenge of longer lives, is calling on businesses to boost economic growth by supporting lifelong learning opportunities among mid and late-career workers, including giving clearer job and career progression assurances for those who retrain Never Too Late to Learn report says UK lags behind other OECD countries in its… Read more »
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Big Issue founder John Bird, Baron Bird says that thousands could be at risk of homelessness thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Courts in England and Wales are hearing rent eviction cases. Homeless charity Shelter estimates that 240 thousand private tenants have fallen into arrears during the coronavirus pandemic. Baron Bird said: “We are about to… Read more »
Prison reform campaigners have criticised the government’s new prison sentencing plans. The plans, outlined in the white paper A Smarter Approach to Sentencing, include ending automatic early release for perpetrators of serious crimes and doubling the sentence for people who assault emergency workers. But Frances Crook, CEO of the Howard League for Penal Reform,… Read more »
