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“Outright ban” on snares will have devastating consequences for biodiversity and the Welsh countryside, warns BASC

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 »

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Businesses must invest in midlife and older workers to unlock economic growth, says think tank Phoenix Insights

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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Interview: Diane Abbott

Diane Abbott talks to politics.co.uk about her opponents, civil liberties and whether she’ll return to the Daily Politics sofa. By Ian Dunt Apparently, modern Britain is too obsessed with staring at the screen in our living room. Politics is now supposedly a regrettable battle of TV personalities. So why did Diane Abbott only make it… Read more »

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Abbott: 'The issue is... what they stand for'
Abbott: I’m the real change candidate

By Ian Dunt Diane Abbott has tried to position herself as the Labour leadership’s only real change candidate, in an interview with politics.co.uk. The left-wing MP, who has been the most outspoken of all the candidates, made the comments as she fights to stay on in the race during its closing stages. Ballot papers were… Read more »