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A new scientific paper into the social, mental and wellbeing attributes of those who participate in game shooting has been highlighted as significant by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The new paper, published in the journal Ageing & Society, concludes that participation in shooting and shooting-related activities, such as beating and picking-up, results… Read more »
Responding to the publication of England’s National Food Strategy, Sarah Woolley, General Secretary of the Bakers and Allied Food Workers Union (BFAWU) said: “With 10 million people across the UK facing food poverty, this new strategy needed to bring meaningful change and recommend a ‘Right to Food’ law, instead it offers little more than crumbs… 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 »
