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BASC’s scholarship programme opens for 2022 applications

Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »

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Rural mental health inquiry must account for gamekeepers and shooting, says BASC

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has raised the importance of recognising the challenges faced by gamekeepers and the physical and mental health benefits of shooting within the Environment Food Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee’s mental health inquiry. The wide-ranging inquiry launched in November 2021 will set out recommendations about how the government can… Read more »

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John Reid faces more foreign prisoner allegations
Foreign prisoners ‘released from hospitals’

The Home Office faces more foreign prisoner allegations today as claims emerged that offenders were released from secure hospitals without its knowledge. Up to 500 foreign prisoners with mental health problems were not considered for deportation before being released, The Sun has claimed. Freed inmates from three hospitals in Berkshire, Nottinghamshire and Merseyside are at… Read more »

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Foreign prisoners were absconding from open prison, government admits
Foreign prisoners moved after open prison escapes

Foreign prisoners held at an open prison are being moved to a more secure place after a number of them walked off, it has emerged. The Prison Service said the inmates had been moved from Ford prison in Sussex after an internal review revealed a “high abscond level at Ford among this group of prisoners”…. Read more »