Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has raised the importance of recognising the challenges faced by gamekeepers and the physical and mental health benefits of shooting within the Environment Food Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee’s mental health inquiry. The wide-ranging inquiry launched in November 2021 will set out recommendations about how the government can… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Nick Clegg will make his first visit to the White House today, for talks with opposite number Joe Biden. The deputy prime minister will meet the vice president to discuss matters such as the war in Afghanistan and social mobility. The meeting comes after a chance encounter backstage at the United Nations,… Read more »
The proposed banning of cigarette vending machines is another attack on British freedoms. By Philip Davies If the judicial review on the proposed banning of cigarette vending machines finds in favour this October, it will see another hammer-blow to the individual liberties of the people in this country. If an individual wants to smoke, an… Read more »