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Entries are now open for the gamekeepers’ classes at Crufts 2023. The classes, which are hosted by BASC, are open to gamekeepers, owners of working gundogs, gundog teams and young handlers, and will be held on Gundog Day, Thursday 9th March 2023, at the NEC in Birmingham. Postal entries close on 9 January 2023, and you can… Read more »
Banning snares including modern humane cable restraints in Wales will remove an essential conservation tool and could result in local extinctions, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation has warned. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), which has its head office in north Wales, is now calling on the Welsh Government to rethink proposed… Read more »
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A new report says tackling violence against women must be considered as much of a priority for the police as anti-terrorism. The report, undertaken by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS), was commissioned by home Secretary Priti Patel in the wake of the murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard in March… Read more »
Former Prime minister Gordon Brown has said the UK is “moving closer together, not further apart”, while warning Boris Johnson to scrap his “muscular unionism” approach to devolution. He claimed that “narrow nationalists” ran both Holyrood and Westminster. A poll released today by the pro-union pressure group Our Scottish Future, of which Brown is founder,… Read more »
