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The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has condemned an incident in the Yorkshire Dales where a nest of hen harrier chicks is suspected of being deliberately destroyed by human activity. North Yorkshire Police is calling for anyone with information about the incident near Whernside earlier this year to… Read more »
BASC is advising members that the European Commission (EC) is considering changes to the EU rules that impact the trade of poultry eggs and birds from areas hit by Avian Influenza (AI). The EU may amend rules on surveillance requirements for imported poultry eggs and birds from Disease Control Zones, from a minimum of 90… Read more »
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The Conservatives need more women MPs in order to attract voters’ support, the party’s most senior female parliamentarian will warn. Theresa May, who served as the Tory’s first female chairman, will say that the party’s overwhelmingly “white, male” image is turning voters off, during a speech to the Fawcett Society on Saturday. In reference to… Read more »
Tory leadership hopeful David Cameron claimed yesterday that Labour has let down Britain’s poorest people by delivering shoddy public services since 1997. In a speech in Portsmouth on Friday night, the Eton and Oxford educated MP said it was time the Tories won back the debate on the radical reform of public services, arguing it… Read more »
