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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has published its inaugural assessment of the Natural Capital benefits of shooting. Natural Capital can be defined as the sum of financial and social benefits we get from our natural environment. This concept has increasingly shaped both international and national environmental policies and is at the core… Read more »
Responding to a report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman into complaints about cancer care, Dr Udvitha Nandasoma, Medical Defence Union (MDU) head of advisory services said: “The report by England’s NHS Ombudsman of outcomes for cancer patients is yet more evidence of the unsustainable pressure on NHS staff. Our members working in the NHS are… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson Professor Richard Dawkins has hit out at science teachers being “so ignorant of science” after a poll showed a majority backed the teaching of creationism in schools. The outspoken Oxford professor was responding to research out last month by pollster Ipsos Mori which found 65 per cent of teaching staff backed its… Read more »
By Laura Miller Low paid workers are often closer to the bread line than those who have lost their jobs due to the recession, a report published today has revealed. In-work poverty – where a person lives in a household with an employed person but where the income is still 60 per cent less than… Read more »