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New paper into social impact of shooting ‘significant’, says BASC

A new scientific paper into the social, mental and wellbeing attributes of those who participate in game shooting has been highlighted as significant by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The new paper, published in the journal Ageing & Society, concludes that participation in shooting and shooting-related activities, such as beating and picking-up, results… Read more »

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New national food strategy offers ‘little more than crumbs’

Responding to the publication of England’s National Food Strategy, Sarah Woolley, General Secretary of the Bakers and Allied Food Workers Union (BFAWU) said: “With 10 million people across the UK facing food poverty, this new strategy needed to bring meaningful change and recommend a ‘Right to Food’ law, instead it offers little more than crumbs… Read more »

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Britain ‘covering up American torture’

By politics.co.uk staff The UK government has been accused of using issues of national security as a smokescreen to cover up torture of a British resident by American agents. Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian national with British residency, has been in Guantanamo Bay for five years, prior to which he claims he was rendered and repeatedly… Read more »

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UK stands accused of complicity in Guantanamo Bay torture
Miliband downplays intelligence ‘threat’

By Alex Stevenson David Miliband has insisted the United States’ request to prevent the release of evidence relating to a Guantanamo Bay detainee was reasonable. In a statement to the Commons this lunchtime the foreign secretary revealed the US government told London that disclosure of the documents, allegedly relating to complicity of UK security forces… Read more »