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BASC welcomes significant improvement on GL43

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 »

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BASC and Natural England meet to talk wildfowling

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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Farmers are to get interest on any single farm payments delayed beyond July 1st
Government to pay interest on late farm payments

Farmers who have waited months for their government subsidy payments will receive interest on all money delayed beyond the end of June, David Miliband has announced. The environment secretary apologised for the “real distress” caused in the past year by the delays to the single payment scheme (SPS), but said that more than 90 per… Read more »

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NFU president condemns reports of antics at the RPA
Farmers condemn government agency antics

Farmers still waiting for their subsidies to be delivered would be “absolutely livid” to hear of naked antics at the government agency responsible, a union leader has warned. President of the National Farmers’ union (NFU) Peter Kendall said many people who had waited months to be given the single farm payments (SFP) they were entitled… Read more »