Ahead of tomorrow’s Stage 1 debate in the Scottish Parliament, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has warned that the Natural Environment Bill poses several risks to the balance of deer management in Scotland. BASC has briefed MSPs on its main concerns and is urging a rethink of proposals that could undermine effective… Read more »
The House of Lords Select Committee for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has just announced its final oral witnesses, and it will not hear from terminally ill individuals or those who have assisted loved ones to die. Clare Turner, a terminally ill person, and Louise Shackleton, who accompanied her husband to Switzerland… Read more »
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Death toll rises after devastating landslides in Philippines. The death toll in landslides caused by week-long freak heavy rains in the Philippines was expected to exceed 100 today, after 35 bodies were recovered with dozens still unaccounted for. Most Filipinos were asleep when the landslides hit San Francisco and Liloan towns in Southern Leyte province… Read more »
The families of three British men, allegedly tortured in a Cairo jail, slammed Tony Blair’s decision to take his family back to Egypt on holiday. The holiday plan was hypocritical, they said. The Prime Minister and his family will during Christmas return to the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for the third consecutive year,… Read more »
