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BASC responds to Scottish Government’s announcement on deer management

Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary today announced the government’s climate change plans, including details on how these new measures will affect deer management in Scotland. The Scottish Government has stated they ‘will build on the current Cairngorms Deer Pilot to develop a national scheme which incentivises increased management and investment in the venison supply chain’. Peter… Read more »

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Marr: The country is full of very angry people
Andrew Marr lashes out at bloggers

By politics.co.uk staff Bloggers are “socially inadequate, pimpled” angry young men, Andrew Marr has said. The former BBC political editor told the Cheltenham Literary Festival that citizen journalism would never replace professional journalism. “Most citizen journalism strikes me as nothing to do with journalism at all,” he said. “A lot of bloggers seem to be… Read more »

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The government insists those with genuine disabilities will not be affected
Incapacity benefit claims come under spotlight

By Peter Wozniak The government is to begin the process of reassessing claimants of incapacity benefit in a series of pilot schemes. Bringing claimants who can work but don’t into the job market forms a key plank of the coalition’s drive to bring down spending on welfare and increase employment. Chris Grayling, the employment minister,… Read more »