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Winners announced for BASC Ladies’ 2021 Star of Shooting Awards

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 »

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Firearms licensing service improved after criticism

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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The shadow foreign secretary, William Hague, has conceded that the Conservative party faces a new test after disappointing by-election results last week. He explained that the Tories had to “keep doing better” after Conservative MP Bob Neill won the Tory heartland seat of Bromley and Chislehurst with a much-reduced majority. The party saw its 13,342… Read more »

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Bad night at the polls for Labour and Tories

Labour has failed to win back the formerly safe seat of Blaenau Gwent, as it again fell to independents. Dai Davies, the agent of the constituency’s former MP, Peter Law, whose death prompted the by-election, comfortably secured more votes than Labour’s Owen Smith. In a separate by-election in Bromley and Chislehurst Labour finished fourth, but… Read more »