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BASC issues warning to Minister ahead of final Grouse Bill debate

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has issued a letter to Jim Fairlie, Scotland’s Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, urging for further amendments to be made at the final stage of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill. It comes as the Bill nears the final stage of a debate on March 19… Read more »

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What are the natural capital benefits of shooting?

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 »

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English hospitals ‘offer better value’

By politics.co.uk staff English hospitals are more productive than those in the devolved regions, despite often having fewer staff per head of the population. Research by the Nuffield Trust over a ten-year-period found the NHS in England had fewer doctors, nurses and managers per capita, but still managed to accomplish more. The comparison was particularly… Read more »

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MP thinks time is ripe for Russian reengagement
MP plots new Russian rapprochement

By Alex Stevenson The new chairman of parliament’s all-party group on Russia has pledged to re-engage “positively” with Moscow. Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock, recently elected chair of the Russia group, has welcomed William Hague’s unusual trip to Moscow to meet president Dmitry Medvedev’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. Diplomatic engagement between London and Moscow has… Read more »