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Delays to firearms licensing are set to reach record highs causing significant complications for certificate holders according to the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). Covid restrictions, regulatory medical involvement and a peak in firearms licensing renewals has caused mass disruption across licensing departments in England and Wales. In… Read more »
Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »
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The police have handed files to the Crown Prosecution Services about the ‘proxy’ donations from David Abrahams. It will now be decided if there is enough evidence to prosecute. The donations, which totalled £664,000, were given to the Labour party by Mr Abrahams, a property developer, through various other individuals. He says he had no… Read more »
Scottish Labour party leader Wendy Alexander should be suspended from the Scottish parliament for one day, a standards committee has recommended. The parliament’s standards committee ruled Ms Alexander failed to declare donations to her leadership campaign. Parliament, however, is currently in summer recess and will have to wait until September to vote on the recommendation…. Read more »
