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The Scottish Government has published its Natural Environment Bill, introducing controversial measures that significantly impact deer managers across Scotland. While the Government claims the Bill will modernise deer management to tackle the climate and nature emergency, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has branded the proposals “draconian”. Key provisions in the Bill include… Read more »
BASC has criticised the government’s decision to grant police automatic powers of entry into the homes of firearms certificate holders as unnecessary and an erosion of civil liberties. The police already have powers of entry to prevent crime and if life is in danger. They can also get a warrant from a magistrate and they… Read more »
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Economic jitters appear to have halted the nationalists’ polling momentum, pushing Alex Salmond on to the defensive with six days to go until the Scottish independence referendum.
Persuading the Scottish to vote ‘no’ in next week’s Scottish independence referendum isn’t much helped by the way Westminster politicians do business.
