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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 »
Responding to a report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman into complaints about cancer care, Dr Udvitha Nandasoma, Medical Defence Union (MDU) head of advisory services said: “The report by England’s NHS Ombudsman of outcomes for cancer patients is yet more evidence of the unsustainable pressure on NHS staff. Our members working in the NHS are… Read more »
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The governments of the UK and Ireland plan to continue with plans to reinstate a power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland. In a joint statement released today, Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain and Irish foreign minister Dermot Ahern said they were “satisfied” with progress and could continue with legislation bringing to bring the St Andrews proposals… Read more »
The timing of Saddam Hussein’s sentencing in the run-up to the US mid-term elections was “deeply suspicious”, former foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind has declared. The Conservative MP accused the Bush administration of using the timing of the verdict, which saw the former Iraqi leader sentenced to death by hanging, to boost the Republicans’ performance at… Read more »
