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BASC has welcomed the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defra of a new general licence (GL45) for the release of game birds (pheasant and red legged partridges) on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. After the chaos of last year’s announcement at short notice, BASC has achieved significant improvements to… Read more »
BASC has recently organised three Introduction to Wildfowling workshops for Natural England (NE) staff. The events were aimed at equipping NE staff with the knowledge and understanding of wildfowling which would ultimately help them make informed, pragmatic consenting decisions on protected and designated sites. More than 40 NE staff, as well as members of local… Read more »
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Peers last night overwhelmingly rejected government plans to merge the prison, police, prosecution, probation and courts watchdogs into a single chief inspector. The House of Lords voted 211 to 98 to support Lord Ramsbottom’s amendment to the police and justice bill that would retain the five independent inspectorates, rather than merge them into one Chief… Read more »
Criminals will be held in police cells in an emergency measure introduced to deal with a bursting prison population, John Reid has announced. The home secretary today confirmed there are currently 79,819 people in jail in England and Wales, just 149 places short of full capacity. As a result, Mr Reid has ordered the implementation… Read more »