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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 »
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 delays in delivering the single farm payment scheme left English farmers with a bill of between £18 million and £22.5 million, a new report warns. The National Audit Office (NAO) today condemns the “unacceptable delay” in delivering European agricultural payments, caused by a catalogue of management errors. One fifth of farmers told the watchdog… Read more »
The government will do what it can to stop the decline of the UK’s post offices but “there is a limit” to the amount of financial support it can give, Tony Blair has said. A petition signed by four million people was delivered to Downing Street today by the National Federation of Sub-postmasters (NFSP), which… Read more »
