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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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Failures in the criminal justice system have been highlighted by the solicitor general following the fatal stabbing of a bus passenger by a man wrongly released from jail. Anthony Joseph is currently serving an indefinite sentence in Broadmoor after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of Richard Whelan on July 29th 2005. The 23-year-old had been… Read more »
The high court has ruled that the government’s freezing of terror suspects’ assets is “flawed”. Mr Justice Collins said the Treasury had “bypassed” parliament by using orders in council deriving from the United Nations security council to freeze the assets of five men. He ruled that men, referred to as A, K, M, Q and… Read more »
