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The three winners of the 2021 BASC Ladies’ Star of Shooting Awards have been announced. For the second year, the awards were split into three categories: Target Shooting, Game and Gamekeeping, and Field to Fork. More than 100 nominations were received. Laura Boswell, from Northamptonshire, took the Target Shooting category, Zoe Roper-Smith, from Norfolk, the… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has been made aware that several firearms licensing departments that had previously stopped grant applications have revised their policy after criticism from BASC, press coverage and intervention by MPs. Licensing departments in North Yorkshire, Thames Valley, Kent and Northamptonshire had all previously announced that grant applications for… Read more »
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William Hague has promised to put human rights “at the heart” of Conservative foreign policy, warning the government has failed to take the issue seriously enough. The shadow foreign secretary was speaking at the launch of the first report from the Tory human rights commission, set up last October, which lists the 18 worst offending… Read more »
The government must promote the benefits of marriage to tackle a “growing underclass” in Britain, a Conservative policy group has argued. The party’s social justice taskforce, led by former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, says family breakdown is a major cause of drug and alcohol addiction, crime and the failure of many individuals to fulfil… Read more »
