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BASC has welcomed the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defra of a new general licence (GL45) for the release of game birds (pheasant and red legged partridges) on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. After the chaos of last year’s announcement at short notice, BASC has achieved significant improvements to… Read more »
BASC has recently organised three Introduction to Wildfowling workshops for Natural England (NE) staff. The events were aimed at equipping NE staff with the knowledge and understanding of wildfowling which would ultimately help them make informed, pragmatic consenting decisions on protected and designated sites. More than 40 NE staff, as well as members of local… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Labour officials were jubilant at a reported drop in crime during the party’s time in office today. The official figures, released by the British Crime Survey, also revealed that fears of a recession-driven crime wave have proved unfounded. Offending is at its lowest level since 1981. Offences fell by nine per cent… Read more »
By Ian Dunt David Cameron has hit out at the “wave of public sympathy” for Raoul Moat, the killer whose one-week chase from the police ended in his death this weekend. Asked about a Facebook page in which several members of the public had criticised the police for the six-hour siege which ended in Moat’s… Read more »
