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Delays to firearms licensing are set to reach record highs causing significant complications for certificate holders according to the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). Covid restrictions, regulatory medical involvement and a peak in firearms licensing renewals has caused mass disruption across licensing departments in England and Wales. In… Read more »
Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Almost two-thirds of Britons remain unconvinced that British troops should remain in Afghanistan, according to a new poll. The survey, conducted by ComRes for the BBC, found 60 per cent of respondents questioned the government’s arguments for staying in Afghanistan. Age played a prominent part in the survey, with young people more… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Western media coverage of the ongoing crisis in the Gaza Strip is unfairly skewed, a Palestinian MP visiting Britain has claimed. Jamal Naji El-Khoudary, one of four independent MPs within the 132-member Palestinian parliament, claimed the western media “did not reveal the whole story” of recent military action by Israel against Gaza…. Read more »
