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Review outcome could jeopardise wildlife management, warns BASC Scotland

BASC has expressed significant concerns about a number of elements which will be looked at as part of a Scottish Government review of NatureScot’s species licensing functions. BASC Scotland director Peter Clark said the review into NatureScot’s current licensing approach had the potential to affect the balance between predator control and wildlife management. He said… Read more »

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Firearms offences fall but fatalities rise to 59
Gun murders rise despite fall in serious crime

More people are being killed as a result of gun crime, despite an overall fall in both homicides and firearms offences, the latest Home Office figures show. Between March 2006 and April 2007 the police recorded 59 fatalities from firearms offences, up from 49 deaths the year before. More than half of all firearms offences… Read more »

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MPs to vote on Derek Conway's fate
Conway suspended as third researcher scrutinised

Disgraced Conservative MP has been suspended from the House of Commons for ten days. MPs have approved the Commons standards and privileges committee’s report into Mr Conway, who was found to have overpaid his son Freddie for work as a parliamentary researcher. The committee recommended the MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup should be suspended… Read more »