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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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Defence secretary Des Browne has expressed his condolences to the family of a British soldier killed in Afghanistan, but insisted troops were playing a vital role in the country. The soldier was the first to die since UK troops were deployed to the southern province of Helmand in May, and was killed during a battle… Read more »
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was the “most vicious prosecutor” of the fight against democracy in Iraq and his death is a blow to terrorists everywhere, Tony Blair has said. The prime minister was speaking after the Iraqi prime minister confirmed that coalition forces had killed the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq in an air strike yesterday… Read more »
