Banning snares including modern humane cable restraints in Wales will remove an essential conservation tool and could result in local extinctions, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation has warned. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), which has its head office in north Wales, is now calling on the Welsh Government to rethink proposed… Read more »
Phoenix Insights, the think tank addressing the challenge of longer lives, is calling on businesses to boost economic growth by supporting lifelong learning opportunities among mid and late-career workers, including giving clearer job and career progression assurances for those who retrain Never Too Late to Learn report says UK lags behind other OECD countries in its… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Almost thirty prospective Conservative parliamentary candidates are working for lobbying and PR firms that seek to influence their party. The news, revealed by The Times today, shows that some of the candidates had been involved in putting their clients cases to senior members of the party. Increasingly, many lobbying firms are targeting… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff MPs’ 12-week summer holidays are too long and should be shortened, the Speaker has said. John Bercow expressed discomfort with the length of the holidays at a meeting of researchers and educational charities organised by the Hansard Society. The issue has been given added impetus this year, as observers take a critical… Read more »
