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Banning snares including modern humane cable restraints in Wales will remove an essential conservation tool and could result in local extinctions, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation has warned. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), which has its head office in north Wales, is now calling on the Welsh Government to rethink proposed… Read more »
Phoenix Insights, the think tank addressing the challenge of longer lives, is calling on businesses to boost economic growth by supporting lifelong learning opportunities among mid and late-career workers, including giving clearer job and career progression assurances for those who retrain Never Too Late to Learn report says UK lags behind other OECD countries in its… Read more »
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Baroness Scotland’s career appears to have survived the controversy of her hiring an illegal immigrant, but Downing Street has launched a mini-reshuffle anyway. Analysts were expecting her departure to force Gordon Brown into filling in a few remaining posts from the last reshuffle earlier in June. But this morning the prime minister confirmed she would… Read more »
By Liz Stephens The mayor of London suggested today that London’s museums and galleries should introduce voluntary visitor charging to tackle the funding crisis in the arts. Commenting in a discussion with the artistic director of the Old Vic theatre, Kevin Spacey, at the Victoria and Albert museum this morning, Boris Johnson said: “It might… Read more »
