* general election 2010
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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By politics.co.uk staff Labour campaigners in Geoff Hoon’s safe Ashfield seat are getting hot under the collar after an attempt to parachute in GMTV’s Gloria De Piero. Ms Piero is the breakfast programme’s political editor and is being considered to succeed the former defence secretary in his Nottinghamshire constituency, in an all-female shortlist. “Gloria would… Read more »
By Ian Dunt and Alex Stevenson Conservative bankroller Michael Ashcroft has finally admitted he is a non-dom, after years of evading the question. The Tory deputy chairman suggested in a statement released on his website he would give up his non-domicile status if the Tories win the election. It came after years of resistance to… Read more »
