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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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The Scottish National Party has launched its first major election poster, which accuses Labour of letting down the Scottish NHS. It believes that health could be Labour’s Achilles heel in Scotland, and is claiming that the median wait for outpatients has actually increased since 1997. The poster launch comes on the day that Labour is… Read more »
Prime Minister Tony Blair today said that if re-elected Labour could not “afford one moment of complacency” on the economy. He said the troubles at MG Rover at Longbridge showed how fast the world changed and why “we have … to keep preparing our country for the next challenge.” And he pledged a £250 million… Read more »
