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Rural livelihoods at risk due to firearms fees hike, warns BASC

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has warned that the government’s decision to significantly increase firearms licensing fees poses a threat to rural livelihoods and fails to deal with gross inefficiencies which in many cases provides an unacceptable service. Moreover, an inefficient system is an ineffective system, and this puts public safety at… Read more »

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By Alexis Alison Replacing the 1997 Human Rights Act (HRA) with a new British Bill of Rights will impose severe complications on devolution in UK, according to a leading legal expert’s predictions. In a move likely to damage David Cameron’s attempts to extract Britain from the HRA’s jurisdiction, a report by JUSTICE director Roger Smith… Read more »

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By politics.co.uk staff MPs have denied any wrongdoing in the use of Commons rooms to entertain clients. Data published yesterday by the Commons banqueting office suggested some MPs could be using the privilege for material gain, while other MPs were shown to have broken the rules. David Cameron, for instance, failed to attend events he… Read more »