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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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Over six million people have claimed that their mortgage has made them ill, according to new research published today. Research by Sainsbury’s Bank found that 6.34 million said their mortgages had made them ill. Around 2.16 million people claimed that their mortgages had made them feel depressed and 4.4 million had complained that they were… Read more »
Continuity IRA, a splinter group of the Irish Republican Army, has supplied firearms and drugs to some of the UK’s most violent gangs, according to the BBC. The Limerick-based dissident terrorist outfit has been smuggling weapons onto the British mainland for sale to organised crime syndicates in English cities such as Manchester and Birmingham. The… Read more »
