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BASC has welcomed the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defra of a new general licence (GL45) for the release of game birds (pheasant and red legged partridges) on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. After the chaos of last year’s announcement at short notice, BASC has achieved significant improvements to… Read more »
BASC has recently organised three Introduction to Wildfowling workshops for Natural England (NE) staff. The events were aimed at equipping NE staff with the knowledge and understanding of wildfowling which would ultimately help them make informed, pragmatic consenting decisions on protected and designated sites. More than 40 NE staff, as well as members of local… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff The government’s plans for higher education will see universities facing “an era of survival of the fittest” as they deal with huge financial risk, a union has warned. The University and Colleges Union (UCU) has released a report, just one day before the crunch vote on fees in the Commons, showing vulnerabilities… Read more »
By Peter Wozniak Gordon Brown has spoken of banks’ ‘chronic recklessness’ in extracts from his new book. The former prime minister’s work, entitled ‘Beyond the Crash’, is currently being serialised in the Guardian – and reveals he felt “misled” over the weaknesses in the Royal Bank of Scotland, now owned predominantly by the taxpayer. In… Read more »
