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Banning snares including modern humane cable restraints in Wales will remove an essential conservation tool and could result in local extinctions, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation has warned. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), which has its head office in north Wales, is now calling on the Welsh Government to rethink proposed… Read more »
Phoenix Insights, the think tank addressing the challenge of longer lives, is calling on businesses to boost economic growth by supporting lifelong learning opportunities among mid and late-career workers, including giving clearer job and career progression assurances for those who retrain Never Too Late to Learn report says UK lags behind other OECD countries in its… Read more »
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Tory activists are ready to reject the wishes of the party and vote against rule changes regarding the leadership election, a new opinion poll suggests. The survey of 100 constituency chairmen by the Sunday Telegraph found 44 per cent of respondents intended to vote against Michael Howard’s proposed new rules. Outgoing leader Mr Howard wants… Read more »
Hundreds of Conservative activists are meeting in London to discuss proposals for choosing the next leader of their party. Tory party chairman Francis Maude, who will address grassroots members attending the forum, is supporting a change to the system which would mean parliamentarians, rather than the party membership as a whole, have the final vote… Read more »
