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 »
Responding to a report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman into complaints about cancer care, Dr Udvitha Nandasoma, Medical Defence Union (MDU) head of advisory services said: “The report by England’s NHS Ombudsman of outcomes for cancer patients is yet more evidence of the unsustainable pressure on NHS staff. Our members working in the NHS are… Read more »
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Arab television station al-Jazeera has aired an audio tape claiming to feature deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. On the tape the purported voice of the former dictator says that he is alive and living ‘among Iraqis’. He adds: ‘I tell you that I miss you, miss you, oh beloved people, even though I am among… Read more »
Foreign Office Minister Baroness Symons has voiced “serious reservations” about the prospect of British detainees at Guantanamo Bay being tried by US military tribunals. Two Brits are among six individuals facing trial after President Bush last night authorised the first prosecutions of terror suspects being held at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba…. Read more »
