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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 »
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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David Cameron has arrived in Afghanistan in a surprise visit to British troops deployed in the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. The Conservative leader said his trip, which was kept secret for security reasons, would be devoted to “listening, learning and showing our support for what is being done”. His party has expressed concern in… Read more »
Foreign Office minister Kim Howells has criticised Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon, in the strongest condemnation of the Israeli offensive made so far by a British official. Speaking yesterday from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Mr Howells said Israel’s attacks against the militant group Hizbullah were not “surgical strikes”, stressing that the military offensive was killing a… Read more »
