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BASC was pleased to host the Secretary of State for Defra, Steve Barclay, at the inaugural Northern Gamekeepers’ Conference on Friday 8 March in the historic grounds of the Swinton Estate in Masham, North Yorkshire. The main hall at the Swinton Park Hotel was standing room only as gamekeepers from across the north of England… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has issued a letter to Jim Fairlie, Scotland’s Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, urging for further amendments to be made at the final stage of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill. It comes as the Bill nears the final stage of a debate on March 19… Read more »
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on all the parties involved in the current violent clashes in Liberia to cease hostilities and ensure that civilians are not targeted. Fighting in the country’s capital Monrovia has intensified over the last few days as rebels close in on the city centre in their campaign against President… Read more »
Spin supremo, Alastair Campbell, the PM’s director of communications, and the PM himself have both refused to give evidence to an influential select committee on whether the government deliberately ‘sexed up’ intelligence reports on Iraq’s capacity to launch WMD strikes within 45 minutes, prior to the US-led war against Saddam Hussein’s regime. Both will decline… Read more »
