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Firearms licensing delays at untenable level, warns UK’s largest shooting organisation

Delays to firearms licensing are set to reach record highs causing significant complications for certificate holders according to the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). Covid restrictions, regulatory medical involvement and a peak in firearms licensing renewals has caused mass disruption across licensing departments in England and Wales. In… Read more »

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BASC’s scholarship programme opens for 2022 applications

Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »

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New report suggests most voters think benefits system is unfair

Research published on Sunday by the free-market think tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) and the firm Public First has controversially suggested that there is polling evidence of a “long-term collapse in support for the welfare state”. Previous polling has suggested that public opinion towards welfare had become more sympathetic during the Covid 19… Read more »