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BASC issues warning to Minister ahead of final Grouse Bill debate

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has issued a letter to Jim Fairlie, Scotland’s Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, urging for further amendments to be made at the final stage of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill. It comes as the Bill nears the final stage of a debate on March 19… Read more »

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What are the natural capital benefits of shooting?

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has published its inaugural assessment of the Natural Capital benefits of shooting. Natural Capital can be defined as the sum of financial and social benefits we get from our natural environment. This concept has increasingly shaped both international and national environmental policies and is at the core… Read more »

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Lord Warner publishes data on NHS job cuts
900 NHS job cuts ‘regrettable’

A total of 900 NHS staff have lost their jobs in the last five months because of financial problems and reorganisations in healthcare trusts, new figures show. Ministers said just 167 of the 903 compulsory redundancies since May were among clinical staff, and although they were “regrettable”, said they represented only a tiny fraction of… Read more »

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Conservatives claim PFI deals have cost the NHS an extra £45 billion
Tories: NHS wasted billions in PFI deals

The Conservatives have accused ministers of wasting £45 billion on NHS hospital building contracts by pressing ahead with unpopular private finance initiative deals (PFI). Figures collated by the party suggest NHS trusts will have to pay private firms £53 billion for hospitals over the next 30 years, although their total value is only £8 billion…. Read more »