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BASC responds to Scottish Government’s announcement on deer management

Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary today announced the government’s climate change plans, including details on how these new measures will affect deer management in Scotland. The Scottish Government has stated they ‘will build on the current Cairngorms Deer Pilot to develop a national scheme which incentivises increased management and investment in the venison supply chain’. Peter… Read more »

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Brown lends full support to the Turkish government.
Brown promises ‘no safe haven’ for PKK

Gordon Brown has promised Turkey the border areas of northern Iraq will be “no safe haven” for the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party). In a Downing Street press conference with the prime minister of Turkey, Recep Erdogan, Gordon Brown explained the US, the Iraqi government and the regional Kurdish government in northern Iraq would work with… Read more »

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Concerns raised over how the increase in population growth will effect public services.
British population to hit 77 million by 2051

The UK population is set to expand by 4.4 million before 2016, according to a report released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) today. The rises equate to an increase of some 0.7 per cent annually – the fastest since the post-WWII baby-boom. Increases are partially attributed to natural causes – i.e. more births… Read more »