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BASC welcomes significant improvement on GL43

BASC has welcomed the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defra of a new general licence (GL45) for the release of game birds (pheasant and red legged partridges) on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. After the chaos of last year’s announcement at short notice, BASC has achieved significant improvements to… Read more »

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BASC and Natural England meet to talk wildfowling

BASC has recently organised three Introduction to Wildfowling workshops for Natural England (NE) staff. The events were aimed at equipping NE staff with the knowledge and understanding of wildfowling which would ultimately help them make informed, pragmatic consenting decisions on protected and designated sites. More than 40 NE staff, as well as members of local… Read more »

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Sketch: Clegg conference speech

There’s a scriptwriter trick which comes in particularly useful for thriller plots. Occasionally the writer will come across a plot hole he simply can’t work his way around, or write a storyline so unlikely as to be absurd. The trick is simply to have one of the characters comment on it. You don’t need to… Read more »

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Adulation as Nick Clegg leaves the conference floor
Clegg speech: Lib Dem reactions

Prominent Lib Dems talk to politics.co.uk about Nick Clegg’s conference speech. Former leader Menzies Campbell “I thought this was a speech addressing three different audiences: our audience in the hall, our coalition partners and those who voted Liberal Democrat and might be thinking of turning back to Labour. There was heavy artillery turned on Labour,… Read more »