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BASC responds to Scottish Government’s announcement on deer management

Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary today announced the government’s climate change plans, including details on how these new measures will affect deer management in Scotland. The Scottish Government has stated they ‘will build on the current Cairngorms Deer Pilot to develop a national scheme which incentivises increased management and investment in the venison supply chain’. Peter… Read more »

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Kelly gears up for first speech
Kelly to highlight parental role

New Education Secretary Ruth Kelly is preparing for her first speech since taking over at the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). Ms Kelly is due to address a delegation of educational figures at the North of England conference, to be held in Manchester on Thursday. She is expected to place parental responsibility at the… Read more »

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IRA: Photographs "unachievable"
IRA rejects photograph ‘humiliation’

The IRA has said today that photographs of it decommissioning its weapons would be a “humiliation” and are “unachievable”. In its New Year message it also accused the unionists of a “rejectionist approach”. Negotiations for a restoration of devolved government broke down at the beginning of December, after the DUP and Sinn Fein were unable… Read more »