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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 »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has published its inaugural assessment of the Natural Capital benefits of shooting. Natural Capital can be defined as the sum of financial and social benefits we get from our natural environment. This concept has increasingly shaped both international and national environmental policies and is at the core… 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 »
