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A year on from BASC Scotland’s call for the establishment of a Gamekeeping Taskforce, the Minister for Environment and Land Reform, Màiri McAllan MSP, has been urged to address the ongoing difficulties facing gamekeepers and rural workers in managing the countryside. Ahead of the 2021 Scottish Parliamentary election BASC Scotland called for the creation of a Scottish Gamekeeping… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) will be challenging many of the restriction proposals put forward by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on the use and sale of lead ammunition for outdoor recreational shooting in England, Scotland and Wales. Following detailed analysis of the HSE evidence and proposals, BASC has produced positions… Read more »
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The Conservative party are to launch a ‘personal morality campaign’ to stop the breakdown of traditional family units. Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith will tomorrow publish the findings of his report into social justice, which claims that the breakdown of families costs £20 billion a year. The report, named Breakdown Britain, blames the collapse… Read more »
The Home Office has been accused of “serial failure” after the revelation that it has missed its targets on cutting crime, reducing young people’s drug use and reoffending. Shadow home secretary David Davis said the department’s annual performance review shows that despite its efforts, reoffending has got worse under the Labour government. “This amounts to… Read more »
