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BASC has welcomed the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defra of a new general licence (GL45) for the release of game birds (pheasant and red legged partridges) on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. After the chaos of last year’s announcement at short notice, BASC has achieved significant improvements to… Read more »
BASC has recently organised three Introduction to Wildfowling workshops for Natural England (NE) staff. The events were aimed at equipping NE staff with the knowledge and understanding of wildfowling which would ultimately help them make informed, pragmatic consenting decisions on protected and designated sites. More than 40 NE staff, as well as members of local… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Some of Britain’s most prominent Jewish academics and politicians have called for an immediate end to the violence in Gaza. In a letter to the Observer, the group, which said it consisted of “passionate and profound supporters of Israel”, said Israel had a right to respond to Hamas’ firing of rockets into… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The government is looking to launch a national internship scheme in order to boost the skills of unemployed graduates. Skills secretary John Denham told the Daily Telegraph the programme would enable out of work students to improve their skills in three-month placements with employers. He added that the government was speaking to… Read more »
