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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has raised the importance of recognising the challenges faced by gamekeepers and the physical and mental health benefits of shooting within the Environment Food Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee’s mental health inquiry. The wide-ranging inquiry launched in November 2021 will set out recommendations about how the government can… Read more »
The government’s new environmental land management schemes are an open door for management practices undertaken for shooting and conservation, says the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The two new schemes unveiled by the Secretary of State for Defra George Eustice at the Oxford Farming Conference will play a pivotal role in the Governments’… Read more »
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Tony Blair’s final Labour conference address as party leader was described as “the speech of a lifetime” by delegates in Manchester today. “You need that kind of inspirational speech to actually motivate and I think he did a remarkable job,” said Nottingham councillor Malcolm Wood. He told politics.co.uk that the wide-ranging speech, in which Mr… Read more »
Arch Blairite Peter Mandelson has said Gordon Brown never got over losing out on leadership of the Labour party in 1994. A “deep breach” opened up between the Brown-Blair camps after the latter was elected party leader, the EU trade commissioner claimed. However, he insisted the prime minister would welcome Mr Brown as future leader…. Read more »
