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The Scottish Government has published its Natural Environment Bill, introducing controversial measures that significantly impact deer managers across Scotland. While the Government claims the Bill will modernise deer management to tackle the climate and nature emergency, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has branded the proposals “draconian”. Key provisions in the Bill include… Read more »
BASC has criticised the government’s decision to grant police automatic powers of entry into the homes of firearms certificate holders as unnecessary and an erosion of civil liberties. The police already have powers of entry to prevent crime and if life is in danger. They can also get a warrant from a magistrate and they… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Margaret Thatcher will leave hospital today, two weeks after being admitted with flu symptoms. The former prime minister fell ill shortly before her 85th birthday, so that she was unable to attend a party organised in her honour at No 10. She was later admitted to hospital on October 19th, though her… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Andrew Mitchell’s personal intervention in a lobbying case involving a rich cocoa magnate triggered concerns among Foreign Office officials, it has emerged. Civil servants reportedly questioned the appropriateness of the international development secretary’s involvement in a bid to improve business conditions in Ghana for businessman Anthony Ward, whose dominance of the global… Read more »
