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BASC has welcomed the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defra of a new general licence (GL45) for the release of game birds (pheasant and red legged partridges) on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. After the chaos of last year’s announcement at short notice, BASC has achieved significant improvements to… Read more »
BASC has recently organised three Introduction to Wildfowling workshops for Natural England (NE) staff. The events were aimed at equipping NE staff with the knowledge and understanding of wildfowling which would ultimately help them make informed, pragmatic consenting decisions on protected and designated sites. More than 40 NE staff, as well as members of local… Read more »
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Australian author DBC Pierre has won the Booker Prize for Vernon God Little, his novel about a high school massacre in Texas. The Author, whose real name is Peter Finlay, was the most controversial of all the nominees for literatures most famous prize. Earlier in the week the novelist admitted to betraying and fleecing his… Read more »
The drinks industry, in a bid to tackle teenage binge drinking, is to run a series of commercial adverts in cinemas, depicting the unpleasant side effects of alcohol. One ad will show a young woman with her head down the toilet after drinking too much. Another ad will show an inebriated young man trying to… Read more »
