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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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Unsustainable pressure on NHS affecting patient care – MDU says

Responding to a report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman into complaints about cancer care, Dr Udvitha Nandasoma, Medical Defence Union (MDU) head of advisory services said: “The report by England’s NHS Ombudsman of outcomes for cancer patients is yet more evidence of the unsustainable pressure on NHS staff. Our members working in the NHS are… Read more »

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Clegg and Cameron offer coalition reassurance

By Alex Stevenson David Cameron and Nick Clegg seized on their united decentralising agenda in a bid to sell the coalition government, after Peter Mandelson’s memoirs reminded Britain of the horsetrading which preceded their deal. Two uncomfortable months in power for the junior party have seen the first cracks within the coalition develop quickly, but… Read more »

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Clegg ‘ended Brown’s career’

By politics.co.uk staff After years of plotting from Labour politicians it took Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg to finally end Gordon Brown’s career, Peter Mandelson has revealed. The former first secretary of state’s memoirs, which are being serialised in the Times newspaper, claim Mr Clegg told Mr Brown a Lib-Lab coalition was only possible without… Read more »