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Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has raised the importance of recognising the challenges faced by gamekeepers and the physical and mental health benefits of shooting within the Environment Food Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee’s mental health inquiry. The wide-ranging inquiry launched in November 2021 will set out recommendations about how the government can… Read more »
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By Liz Stephens Several hundred protesters are expected outside the Vestas wind turbine plant on the Isle of Wight tonight, with more demonstrations planned outside the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Twenty-five workers are currently staging a sit-in protest in an attempt to save Britain’s only major wind turbine manufacturing plant from closure next… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson A Green by-election victory has stripped the Conservatives of overall control of Brighton and Hove city council. Alexandra Phillips, from Hove, won the Goldsmid by-election to raise Greens to joint second place with Labour. The Tories, who took 29.2 per cent of the Goldsmid votes compared to the Greens’ 38.5 per cent,… Read more »
