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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 »
The UK Government must carry out long overdue reform of the teaching of Religious Education (RE) in England to meet the needs of modern society, says Humanists UK in response to another Ofsted review. In its deep-dive report into RE – Deep and meaningful? – Ofsted found that the current curriculum often lacks ‘sufficient substance to… Read more »
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Former Conservative Party leader William Hague has won an award for his book William Pitt the Younger. His book about William Pitt – Britain’s Prime Minister during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars – beat off strong competition to win the history book of the year award. It was chosen ahead of Max Hasting’s book… Read more »
Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that Labour would cut crime by 15 per cent by 2008, if elected for a third term. He said that “on any basis crime has fallen” but accepted that “for many people in many communities it doesn’t feel like that”. And he pledged to introduce a Violent Crime Reduction… Read more »