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New deer management orders could contravene human rights according to Scotland’s largest shooting organisation

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has written to the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Lorna Slater, ahead of a major consultation into deer management changes in Scotland. The consultation which closes on Friday 29 March, raises six key themes around deer management changes. BASC has serious concerns regarding many… Read more »

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Scottish Assisted Dying Bill Published – Humanists UK Comment

The Assisted Dying Bill Scotland has been published today. Humanists UK welcomes the bill and hopes it passes the next stage, but urges politicians not to ignore people like Tony Nicklinson, who would not be eligible for the proposed law. Currently, the Bill is limited to only people who are terminally ill, which has a legal… Read more »

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Lib Dems will try get £2 million more people in employment by 2020.
Lib Dems ‘declare war on inequality’

The Liberal Democrats claim they can lift five million children out of relative poverty by 2020. Delegates at the Lib Dem conference in Brighton approved the party’s poverty and inequality policy paper, which advocates education and employment opportunities with incentives to work and save. Introducing Freedom from Poverty, Opportunity for All, Lib Dem work and… Read more »

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The 'Brown bounce' bounces Cameron further down the polls.
Summer loving over for Cameron

Conservative hopes the ‘Brown bounce’ had exhausted itself have been dealt a blow by the latest opinion poll which puts Labour on the election-winning 40 per cent benchmark. A Guardian/ICM poll puts support for Labour up one, extending their lead over the Conservatives, who have slipped two points to 32 per cent. This is reminiscent… Read more »