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BASC issues warning to Minister ahead of final Grouse Bill debate

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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What are the natural capital benefits of shooting?

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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Northern Ireland secretary says paramilitaries will not be able to terrorise their own communities
Hain: Loyalists must stop violence

Violence and rioting by loyalist paramilitaries must end, Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain has said. Addressing the problem of alienation in loyalist working class areas, he said people must be stopped from terrorising their own communities “if we are to create a strong and prosperous Northern Ireland”. His speech in Belfast came after violence –… Read more »

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Sir Ian ‘considered resigning’

The head of the Metropolitan police considered resigning after the shooting of an innocent Brazilian by his officers, who mistakenly thought he was a suicide bomber. Sir Ian Blair yesterday admitted that his force should have reacted more quickly to dismiss unfounded suggestions that Jean Charles de Menezes was wearing a heavy jacket and vaulted… Read more »