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Shooting is a hit with Crieff Juniors FC

A junior football team based in Perthshire have tried their hand at clay pigeon shooting with the support of their latest sponsor, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). BASC – the UK’s largest shooting organisation – hosted the Crieff Juniors 2008 squad at Gleneagles Shooting and Fishing School for an afternoon of clay… Read more »

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RSPB loses hen harrier judicial review

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has welcomed the decision by the Court of Appeal to dismiss legal challenges by the RSPB and Mark Avery into Natural England’s research into hen harrier brood management. In confirming the trial brood management scheme is legal, the courts have for a second time dismissed the RSPB… Read more »

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By Alexis Alison Replacing the 1997 Human Rights Act (HRA) with a new British Bill of Rights will impose severe complications on devolution in UK, according to a leading legal expert’s predictions. In a move likely to damage David Cameron’s attempts to extract Britain from the HRA’s jurisdiction, a report by JUSTICE director Roger Smith… Read more »