BASC was pleased to host the Secretary of State for Defra, Steve Barclay, at the inaugural Northern Gamekeepers’ Conference on Friday 8 March in the historic grounds of the Swinton Estate in Masham, North Yorkshire. The main hall at the Swinton Park Hotel was standing room only as gamekeepers from across the north of England… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has issued a letter to Jim Fairlie, Scotland’s Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, urging for further amendments to be made at the final stage of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill. It comes as the Bill nears the final stage of a debate on March 19… Read more »
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Administrators to MG Rover have revealed that more than 5,000 redundancies will have to occur at the carmaker’s Longbridge plant. The announcement follows the conformation that this week’s attempts to re-open discussions with the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) about a possible takeover have failed. Letters have gone out to those who will lose their… Read more »
Much of Wales’ rural western coastline is now poorer than former Communist Eastern Europe, according to Plaid Cymru. Launching their rural strategy today, the nationalist party claimed that young people were moving away and local services were disappearing. It calculates that the regional GDP of West Wales and the Valleys is 73.8 per cent of… Read more »
