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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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Only one Labour rebel has been included in the committee designed to discuss the higher education bill, it was announced today. George Mudie is the only member of a 72-strong contingent of Labour MPs who voted against the introduction of higher tuition fees to be named, prompting suggestions that the government has ‘stacked’ the committee… Read more »
Opposition leader Michael Howard has called for Tony Blair to resign because he failed to ask “basic questions” about intelligence used as the basis for the government’s dossier on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The prime minister has revealed that he was not aware that the claim that Iraq could launch WMD within 45 minutes… Read more »
