* general election 2010
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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By politics.co.uk staff The Conservatives are launching a nationwide literature campaign offering a ‘contract’ between David Cameron and voters. Its leaflet, which will be distributed across the country in the final week of the general election campaign, clearly tells voters they should reject a Tory government if it does not fulfil its pledges. It comes… Read more »
By Sam Dale The former Conservative defence secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind has accused Labour of having “failed” the armed forces with resources. Launching an armed forces manifesto in Stirling in Scotland Sir Malcolm said a Tory government would not cut the defence budget “in the current year”. He said: “What has been extraordinary about the… Read more »
