Human Rights
The Preston and District Wildfowling Association (PDWA) have been awarded a £21,000 grant from the Wildlife Habitat Charitable Trust (WHCT) to improve habitat on the protected Hutton Marsh in the Ribble Estuary. The grant will be used to fund habitat improvements for nesting birds, as well as to encourage water voles and otters into the… Read more »
North Yorkshire Police’s decision to halt all firearm and shotgun certificate grants has been described by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), as “a clear breach of their statutory duty”. In correspondence with North Yorkshire MPs, BASC has asked that the force is scrutinised and that they resume… Read more »
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Prisoners at London’s biggest jail have been living in vermin-infested conditions and 40 per cent fear abuse from staff, official inspectors said today. Following an investigation of HMP Pentonville in June, serious concerns were raised by the chief inspector of prisons, Anne Owers. Describing an “institutional disrespect” which fails to ensure basic levels of safety… Read more »
The US is guilty of a “shocking affront to the principles of democracy” in its use of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to hold terror suspects, Lord Falconer has said. The lord chancellor said the British government’s position on the camp “does not detract from the fact that the US is a close and staunch… Read more »
