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Royal Mail has shelved plans to impose a blanket ban on the carriage of knives which would have unfairly penalised the shooting community and hundreds of small businesses across the country. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) wrote to Royal Mail’s chief executive pointing out that the ban would severely impact retailers across the… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has written to the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Lorna Slater, ahead of a major consultation into deer management changes in Scotland. The consultation which closes on Friday 29 March, raises six key themes around deer management changes. BASC has serious concerns regarding many… Read more »
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Police officers who colluded with loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland will be “properly and rightly dealt with”, the prime minister has declared. This week’s police ombudsman’s report detailing how members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Special Branch protected paramilitary informers said prosecutions were unlikely because so much evidence had been destroyed. But Tony Blair… Read more »
Police officers in Northern Ireland protected their loyalist informants from investigations into ten murders in the 1990s, a damning new report has found. A three and a half year investigation by police ombudsman Nuala O’Loan finds collusion between certain officers with the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Special Branch and an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) unit… Read more »
