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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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By Ian Dunt Harriet Harman is facing up to an entirely different level of political opposition today after Pope Benedict XVI came out against her equality bill. Speaking to Catholic bishops from England and Wales who made the al-Limina pilgrimage to the tombs of Peter and Paul in Rome, the pope revealed his discomfort with… Read more »
by politics.co.uk staff The Lords have voted down three amendments to the equality bill, which campaigners said would prevent churches from denying jobs to gay people. Ministers insisted they intended only to clarify the existing bill, but in a series of well-attended votes, Lords rejected their arguments. The first vote had a majority of 38,… Read more »
