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BASC welcomes significant improvement on GL43

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 »

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BASC and Natural England meet to talk wildfowling

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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A capital receipts tax would be more progressive, IPPR says
Inheritance tax ‘obsolete’

By politics.co.uk staff Chancellor George Osborne should abandon inheritance tax altogether, a thinktank has argued. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) suggested it should be replaced with a new capital receipts tax targeting gifts to individuals of over £150,000 in a report published today. The shift would be more progressive because the tax rate… Read more »

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Ministers hint at airport disruption clampdown

By politics.co.uk staff The government could overhaul airport regulation following recent travel chaos. Ministers suggested they were determined to prepare reforms of the way Britain’s airports are controlled, with fines possible for firms like BAA. The run-up to Christmas was dominated by headlines about travel disruption following the decision to close Heathrow, the country’s largest… Read more »