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Rural livelihoods at risk due to firearms fees hike, warns BASC

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has warned that the government’s decision to significantly increase firearms licensing fees poses a threat to rural livelihoods and fails to deal with gross inefficiencies which in many cases provides an unacceptable service. Moreover, an inefficient system is an ineffective system, and this puts public safety at… Read more »

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Consumer watchdogs ‘feeble’

Watchdogs set up to strengthen the voice of consumers in the postal and energy markets are “performing feebly”, a committee of MPs says today. The public accounts committee finds that Energywatch and Postwatch, set up in 2000 to advise consumers and deal with complaints, are failing to perform their role effectively. However, both organisations said… Read more »

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Tory candidates bid for business support

The candidates for the Conservative leadership today attempted to woo business leaders at the CBI annual conference in London. Both David Davis and David Cameron attacked chancellor Gordon Brown’s economic record, warning that high-tax and high-spend policies were leading to a slowdown in growth and declining UK competitiveness. However, Mr Davis admitted that where the… Read more »