BASC has welcomed the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defra of a new general licence (GL45) for the release of game birds (pheasant and red legged partridges) on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. After the chaos of last year’s announcement at short notice, BASC has achieved significant improvements to… Read more »
BASC has recently organised three Introduction to Wildfowling workshops for Natural England (NE) staff. The events were aimed at equipping NE staff with the knowledge and understanding of wildfowling which would ultimately help them make informed, pragmatic consenting decisions on protected and designated sites. More than 40 NE staff, as well as members of local… Read more »
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The private life of Chris Bryant was exposed by The Sun newspaper yesterday after the tabloid published explicit emails and photographs of the Labour MP for Rhondda “in his underpants.” The openly gay Mr Bryant had emailed a photograph of himself to a man he met on a gay website. An introductory email sent by… Read more »
Ministers have set out plans to introduce new “stay away” orders so that men accused of domestic violence would face prison for approaching their victim. The order would be issued by magistrate and crown courts, and could even be applied to men who are acquitted of any wrongdoing. This has been proposed so as to… Read more »
