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Banning snares including modern humane cable restraints in Wales will remove an essential conservation tool and could result in local extinctions, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation has warned. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), which has its head office in north Wales, is now calling on the Welsh Government to rethink proposed… Read more »
Phoenix Insights, the think tank addressing the challenge of longer lives, is calling on businesses to boost economic growth by supporting lifelong learning opportunities among mid and late-career workers, including giving clearer job and career progression assurances for those who retrain Never Too Late to Learn report says UK lags behind other OECD countries in its… Read more »
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Ministers must change the law to guarantee witnesses of gun crime anonymity, senior police officers have said. The police are concerned many witnesses to serious crime are not coming forward to give evidence due to a fear of reprisals. The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) is now lobbying the government to change the law… Read more »
Gordon Brown said the government is working “behind the scenes” to tackle gun crime. The prime minister said he was pursuing a “calm and measured” approach to reducing gang violence, but said this may include new legislation. The Conservatives have attacked Labour for trying to legislate their way out of gun and gang violence, rather… Read more »
