The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has been made aware that several firearms licensing departments that had previously stopped grant applications have revised their policy after criticism from BASC, press coverage and intervention by MPs. Licensing departments in North Yorkshire, Thames Valley, Kent and Northamptonshire had all previously announced that grant applications for… Read more »
Tony Juniper, chair of Natural England, had the opportunity to see first-hand the conservation efforts of wildfowling clubs when he visited the Lytham & District Wildfowling Association (LDWA). Accompanied by staff from the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), Tony took part in a conservation walk around the club’s land at the mouth of… Read more »
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by Peter Wozniak Retailers have urged the government to rethink the way it charges business rates, if companies are to cope with the impact of the spending review. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) argued that retailers will suffer a “double hit” in increasing business rates, warning that the private sector cannot tackle the unemployment from… Read more »
There’s a scriptwriter trick which comes in particularly useful for thriller plots. Occasionally the writer will come across a plot hole he simply can’t work his way around, or write a storyline so unlikely as to be absurd. The trick is simply to have one of the characters comment on it. You don’t need to… Read more »
