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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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Environmentalists and the Liberal Democrats have reacted with outrage to Government plans to store foreign nuclear waste in the UK. The plans, announced in a written ministerial statement last night, will see “intermediate” nuclear waste that has been reprocessed in the UK stored in the UK instead of being returned to the country of origin…. Read more »
Tony Blair and Michael Howard have clashed in the Commons on their respective political records. In the last Prime Minister’s Question Time before Christmas, the Conservative leader sought to portray the Government as failing to fulfil its promises, whilst Mr Blair hit back with examples of Labour’s successes and attacked the Tory spending plans. Attacking… Read more »
