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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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PM visits Cumbria after gunman shootings

By politics.co.uk staff David Cameron has visited Cumbria, two days after shooting spree killer Derrick Bird murdered 12 people before turning the gun on himself. The prime minister accompanied home secretary Theresa May, who yesterday pledged that the government would not rush to change gun-licensing laws in the wake of the incident. The pair visited… Read more »

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‘Heart torn out’ of influential Commons committee

By Rebecca Burns The new public administration select committee (Pasc) will be a “pale imitation” of its former self whichever candidate wins the election to be its next chair, Paul Flynn has said. The Newport West MP, a member of the committee from 2005, told politics.co.uk its “heart has been torn out with the loss… Read more »