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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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Cameron vows to protect union against 'course nationalism'
Cameron speaks out for English-Scottish union

David Cameron today spoke out in defence of the union under the slogan “stronger together”. Speaking as the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party, Mr Cameron said an imperfect union was preferable to a broken one. Although he said there were legitimate constitutional questions posed by the relationship between Scotland and England – most… Read more »

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Salmond pushing for independent Holyrood
Salmond sets ten-year target for independence

Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has set a ten-year target for winning independence from Westminster. The SNP leader had previously promised to hold a referendum on independence by the end of the nationalist party’s first term in government. Yesterday, however, he predicted Scotland would gain independence within a decade, leaving it free to raise its… Read more »