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BASC was pleased to host the Secretary of State for Defra, Steve Barclay, at the inaugural Northern Gamekeepers’ Conference on Friday 8 March in the historic grounds of the Swinton Estate in Masham, North Yorkshire. The main hall at the Swinton Park Hotel was standing room only as gamekeepers from across the north of England… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has issued a letter to Jim Fairlie, Scotland’s Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, urging for further amendments to be made at the final stage of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill. It comes as the Bill nears the final stage of a debate on March 19… Read more »
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Residents in Edinburgh will today begin to vote on controversial plans to introduce congestion charging to the capital. The council’s proposals could see drivers charged for entering the town centre at peak times. There would be two cordons, an outer one for the morning rush hour and an inner cordon operating until 1830. Drivers wishing… Read more »
The CBI has rejected calls for a flat rate citizens’ pension for all, claiming such a scheme would be prohibitively expensive. Publishing its response to the Turner review on the pensions crisis, the employers’ organisation warned that a flat-rate, non-means-tested state pension was unrealistic. Instead of a higher pension, paid to all regardless of working… Read more »
