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Royal Mail has shelved plans to impose a blanket ban on the carriage of knives which would have unfairly penalised the shooting community and hundreds of small businesses across the country. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) wrote to Royal Mail’s chief executive pointing out that the ban would severely impact retailers across the… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has written to the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Lorna Slater, ahead of a major consultation into deer management changes in Scotland. The consultation which closes on Friday 29 March, raises six key themes around deer management changes. BASC has serious concerns regarding many… Read more »
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Productivity in the NHS has failed to keep pace with the record sums of monies invested since 1997, the Office for National Statistics reported on Monday. The ONS suggested some £6 billion a year in spending was left unimplemented through bureaucratic inefficiency. ONS researchers concluded that productivity fell between four and eight per cent since… Read more »
The Houses of Parliament are likely to get a dedicated security co-ordinator. The Commons authorities’ agreement to the move in principle was announced in a written answer to the House this afternoon, according to the BBC. This year has seen a number of embarrassing breaches of Commons security. In March two Greenpeace protestors managed to… Read more »
