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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 »
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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There’s always something exciting about the police losing control. By Ian Dunt There’s no point pretending otherwise. It’s rare and dramatic and it’s hard to quell that frisson of excitement, that sense that something out of the ordinary is happening and you are there to witness it. For plenty of the students at today’s protest,… Read more »
…And how the student protest shot itself in the foot. By Peter Wozniak My, how it all went horribly wrong. What had started as a huge (and surprisingly coherent) outpouring of rational ill-feeling towards the raising of tuition fees became something resembling nothing so much as a medieval siege. Tonight the news is dominated by… Read more »
