The government’s new environmental land management schemes are an open door for management practices undertaken for shooting and conservation, says the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The two new schemes unveiled by the Secretary of State for Defra George Eustice at the Oxford Farming Conference will play a pivotal role in the Governments’… Read more »
Yesterday the Government announced proposals to introduce outdoor civil marriages at approved premises on a permanent basis and to also introduce outdoor religious marriages, but failed to make any similar reforms to legally recognise humanist marriages. Humanists UK has urged the Government to act now to legally recognise humanist marriages without delay. Humanists UK Chief… Read more »
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MPs have been asked whether the UK’s future in the European Union should be put to a public vote. After initially blocking the amendment, the speaker Michael Martin has put the Liberal Democrat’s call for an “in or out” referendum on the EU to a Commons vote. Last week Lib Dem MPs walked out of… Read more »
David Cameron has accused the government of breaking the military covenant. The Conservative leader said he ashamed of the way the forces are treated and said service families were expected to put up with conditions that would be “simply unacceptable in civilian life”. He was speaking as the Conservatives launched their own review of the… Read more »
