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More than 2,000 schoolchildren were treated to an upland educational experience during this year’s Let’s Learn Moor events. Talks and interactive presentations were provided by those who live and work in the uplands including gamekeepers, farmers, conservationists, local organisations and the emergency services. Now in its fifth year the project continues to offer local schools… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has described the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee inquiry into the Government’s Animals Abroad Bill as a ‘win for conservation’. The EFRA Select Committee’s inquiry announced today (2 July) that they will look at the government’s proposals on so-called ‘trophy hunting’ and whether the… Read more »
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Downing Street has denied David Blunkett’s claims that the prime minister has had a heart problem for the past 18 years. The former home secretary claims in his memoirs that Tony Blair, after being admitted to hospital with a heart murmur in October 2003, told him it had been a problem since 1988. Mr Blunkett’s… Read more »
Government ministers and Conservatives MPs engaged in a four-hour parliamentary battle yesterday when they debated the state of the NHS. The Tories had called for the Commons debate to highlight the government’s failures in the health service, and called on MPs to back a motion condemning the loss of up to 20,000 hospital posts, cuts… Read more »
