Constitutional Reform
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 »
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 politics.co.uk staff Cabinet ministers have made clear the three MPs facing prosecution over their expenses claims should not use parliamentary privilege for their defence. Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine will be charged under the Theft Act as the Crown Prosecution Service seeks the first criminal convictions from the scandal. Peer Lord Hanningfield… Read more »
by politics.co.uk staff Lobbying in Westminster has got out of control, David Cameron has admitted. The Tory leader made reform of the current system of lobbying the centrepiece of his speech today on cleaning up parliament in the wake of the expenses scandal. “When it’s transparent, lobbying is a perfectly reasonable thing to do,” he… Read more »
