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Royal Mail rows back on knife ban

Royal Mail has shelved plans to impose a blanket ban on the carriage of knives which would have unfairly penalised the shooting community and hundreds of small businesses across the country. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) wrote to Royal Mail’s chief executive pointing out that the ban would severely impact retailers across the… Read more »

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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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Brown outlasts resignation petition

By politics.co.uk staff The petition on the Downing Street website calling for Gordon Brown to resign was taken down last night. It had attracted 72,000 signatures in its six months on the site before being taken down. The petition was launched in April by Kalvis Jansons, a former Labour supporter, who simply proposed: ”We the… Read more »

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Griffin: Give me one more chance

Read the BNP leader’s comments to journalists in full, in which he accuses the BNP of bias, asks to do another Question Time, and says London is not part of Britain. Nick Griffin made the comments at a hastily convened news conference today, as the media assessment of his performance last night went from bad… Read more »