Armed Forces
The three winners of the 2021 BASC Ladies’ Star of Shooting Awards have been announced. For the second year, the awards were split into three categories: Target Shooting, Game and Gamekeeping, and Field to Fork. More than 100 nominations were received. Laura Boswell, from Northamptonshire, took the Target Shooting category, Zoe Roper-Smith, from Norfolk, the… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has been made aware that several firearms licensing departments that had previously stopped grant applications have revised their policy after criticism from BASC, press coverage and intervention by MPs. Licensing departments in North Yorkshire, Thames Valley, Kent and Northamptonshire had all previously announced that grant applications for… Read more »
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The defence secretary has repeated his insistence that British troops will not pull out of Iraq ‘until the job is done’, after two more soldiers were killed at the weekend. The pair, who are from the Queen’s Dragoon Guards, were killed by a roadside bomb in the southern city of Basra on Sunday morning. Their… Read more »
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced a new crack down on sexual harassment after research today revealed the problem was widespread in all the armed forces. A survey of 9,384 servicewomen reveals that 99 per cent had witnessed sexual jokes, explicit material or unwanted touching in the past 12 months. And although there was… Read more »
