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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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State schools are being more heavily impacted by covid-related staff absences than private schools, with state school teachers almost twice as likely to report that one in 10 or more of their colleagues were absent due to covid (20% vs 12%). This is according to new Sutton Trust research with Teacher Tapp, which gives the… Read more »
Before entering the world of politics, I had a 25-year career in the NHS, latterly leading rare cancer nursing services at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. Cancer patients’ immune response is very often affected by the chemotherapy used to treat their disease, so the management and control of infection is a central concern in… Read more »
