Environment Secretary George Eustice MP praised the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) for its role in protecting the British countryside during the Conservative Conference in Manchester. Speaking at a rural reception hosted by BASC and the Angling Trust, Mr Eustice highlighted the conservation that takes place as a direct result of shooting…. Read more »
BASC is asking members and the wider shooting community to respond to a firearms licensing survey, despite describing it as a ‘red-herring’. The survey, coordinated by the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) on the back of the Plymouth shooting incident, is seeking views on firearms licensing in England and Wales. Questions within the… Read more »
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By Laura Miller The home secretary must “use her best endeavours” to bring back a gay asylum seeker illegally deported from the UK, a High Court judge ruled today. Sir George Newman condemned as “manifestly unlawful” the removal of the man known only as Mr X, for fear revealing his identity or native country would… Read more »
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