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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) will be challenging many of the restriction proposals put forward by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on the use and sale of lead ammunition for outdoor recreational shooting in England, Scotland and Wales. Following detailed analysis of the HSE evidence and proposals, BASC has produced positions… Read more »
The Food and Work Network – a coalition of academics, public health professionals, trade unionists and community activists based at Birkbeck College, University of London – today slammed as “wholly inadequate” the Government’s Food Strategy, arguing that “it’s time to declare a National Food Emergency” to reflect the gravity of the situation. The Network has… Read more »
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The chairman of the Commission for Integrated Transport has warned that Government plans to reduce traffic will fail because of a widening gap between motoring costs and public transport fares. David Begg, the most senior ministerial adviser on transport, claimed in a report published today that ministers had ‘over-promised and underdelivered’ on their £180 billion… Read more »
Three people have died in a collision between a First Great Western train and a minibus. The train, travelling from Hereford to London, collided with the minibus on an unmanned level crossing near Charlton, Worcestershire. First Great Western has announced that the train involved in the collision was the 7:03am from Hereford to London, and… Read more »
