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Entries for BASC classes at Crufts 2023 now open

Entries are now open for the gamekeepers’ classes at Crufts 2023. The classes, which are hosted by BASC, are open to gamekeepers, owners of working gundogs, gundog teams and young handlers, and will be held on Gundog Day, Thursday 9th March 2023, at the NEC in Birmingham. Postal entries close on 9 January 2023, and you can… Read more »

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“Outright ban” on snares will have devastating consequences for biodiversity and the Welsh countryside, warns BASC

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 »

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Labour bans four MPs from standing

By politics.co.uk staff Labour’s internal ‘star chamber’ has banned four of its MPs from standing at the next election after assessing their expenses claims. David Chaytor, Elliot Morley, Margaret Moran and Ian Gibson were all told by the party’s disciplinary panel they would not be allowed to stand as Labour candidates. “After considering in detail… Read more »

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Worried Miliband backs Brown

By Alex Stevenson Gordon Brown’s premiership has not “run out of steam”, David Miliband insisted last night. The foreign secretary was in concerned mood in the run-up to the European elections, warning the expenses crisis has created a “time of political danger [for] the Labour party”. But in the question and answer session which followed… Read more »