The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has donated £15,000 to the Wiltshire-based Great Bustard Group to further its work in re-establishing the species into the wild. The Great Bustard Group was set up in 1998 to explore the possibility of re-establishing the Great Bustard as a self-sustaining species on Salisbury Plain. … Read more »
Kent-based shotgun coach Tom Friar has won the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) Shotgun Coach of the Year award, being presented the shield at this year’s Weston Park County Fair. Usually found teaching at the Kent and Sussex Shooting School and West Kent Shooting School, Tom Friar has been volunteering with BASC… Read more »
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The official terror threat level has been secretly lowered for the first time since the London bombings on July 7. According to the Sunday Telegraph, the threat level has been reduced from the highest level of “critical”, or Level One, to “severe general”, or Level 2G. The decision is said to have been made on… Read more »
Britain’s top police officers are reconsidering the shoot to kill policy that had been introduced to help combat terrorism. The reassessment is a result of the first implementation of the policy, which resulted in the death of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, reports the Guardian. Mr de Menezes was mistaken for one of the… Read more »
