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What are the natural capital benefits of shooting?

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has published its inaugural assessment of the Natural Capital benefits of shooting. Natural Capital can be defined as the sum of financial and social benefits we get from our natural environment. This concept has increasingly shaped both international and national environmental policies and is at the core… Read more »

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Unsustainable pressure on NHS affecting patient care – MDU says

Responding to a report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman into complaints about cancer care, Dr Udvitha Nandasoma, Medical Defence Union (MDU) head of advisory services said: “The report by England’s NHS Ombudsman of outcomes for cancer patients is yet more evidence of the unsustainable pressure on NHS staff. Our members working in the NHS are… Read more »

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The FT backed the Tories for the first time since the late eighties today
The FT backs the Tories

By politics.co.uk staff The Financial Times is backing the Tories, after supporting Labour in the last four general elections. The paper said there were problems with the Conservative party but that it had “sound instinct”. “The problems facing the UK are daunting – more so than any the country has faced since the 1970s,” the… Read more »

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Lib Dems' secret hung parliament committee has prepared demands - report
Lib Dems’ hung parliament wish-list revealed

By politics.co.uk staff A secretive Liberal Democrat ‘hung parliament committee’ has drawn up a list of demands to be brought forward if no party secures an overall majority, according to a report. The Sun newspaper – which is campaigning brazenly for the Conservatives in the run-up to polling day – said it had secured a… Read more »