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 »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has published its inaugural assessment of the Natural Capital benefits of shooting. Natural Capital can be defined as the sum of financial and social benefits we get from our natural environment. This concept has increasingly shaped both international and national environmental policies and is at the core… Read more »
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By Liz Stephens Gordon Brown issued an apology last night on behalf of the government to Alan Turing, the Bletchley codebreaker who committed suicide in the 1950s after being sentenced to chemical castration for being a homosexual. Mr Turing was famous for deciphering the messages produced by German Enigma machines – his work is widely… Read more »
By Liz Stephens The prime minister will meet with trade union leaders for lunch in Chequers today ahead of next week’s TUC conference and the forthcoming Labour party conference. The meeting, which would be, according to one Downing Street source, “no love-in”, takes place in an atmosphere of fear over potential public sector cuts and… Read more »
