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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 »
Tony Juniper, chair of Natural England, had the opportunity to see first-hand the conservation efforts of wildfowling clubs when he visited the Lytham & District Wildfowling Association (LDWA). Accompanied by staff from the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), Tony took part in a conservation walk around the club’s land at the mouth of… 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 »
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 »
