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The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has condemned an incident in the Yorkshire Dales where a nest of hen harrier chicks is suspected of being deliberately destroyed by human activity. North Yorkshire Police is calling for anyone with information about the incident near Whernside earlier this year to… Read more »
BASC is advising members that the European Commission (EC) is considering changes to the EU rules that impact the trade of poultry eggs and birds from areas hit by Avian Influenza (AI). The EU may amend rules on surveillance requirements for imported poultry eggs and birds from Disease Control Zones, from a minimum of 90… Read more »
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New GPs will be parachuted into deprived areas in a bid to reduce health inequalities, the government announced today. Health secretary Alan Johnson said today the first new GP practices will open within a year. In October, in his first major speech at the Department of Health (DoH), Mr Johnson made it a government ambition… Read more »
The Department of Health (DoH) has been accused of boom and bust economics after it emerged the NHS is heading for a record surplus. The health service is forecast to record a surplus of £1.8 billion in 2007-08. This is more than triple the £547 million deficit incurred in 2005-06, which prompted a slew of… Read more »
