The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) urged the Labour Party to listen to rural voters at a reception at the party’s annual conference in Brighton this weekend. Addressing shadow Environment Secretary Daniel Zeichner MP, BASC said those who live and work in Britain’s countryside should be listened to on issues such as the… Read more »
A new vision that will place communities at the centre of efforts to manage deer on publicly owned land in Scotland will be unveiled today (24 September) by a partnership of eleven leading deer management stakeholders. The partnership aims to institutionalise what is being described as ‘community integrated deer management’ by establishing more opportunities for… Read more »
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Gordon Brown says Britain should consider an “opt-out” system of consent for organ donation. The prime minister’s call for hospitals to be allowed to remove organs from dead patients without prior consent comes before a government taskforce reports on the issue next week. Mr Brown, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, says he wants to “start… Read more »
Embattled Cabinet minister Peter Hain has dismissed claims of wrongdoing related to donations to his Labour deputy leadership campaign as “absurd”. A statement from the work and pensions and Wales secretary delivered this afternoon to reporters reiterated his “full and unreserved” apology over the failure to register over £100,000. He faces investigation from the Electoral… Read more »
