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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 Alex Stevenson A former health minister’s attempt to derail the government’s proposals for free social care failed in the Lords last night, as consensus over the policy remains elusive. Lord Warner served in Tony Blair’s government but attacked the proposed free social care policy for those with high levels of need, which was initially… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Not enough doctors realise the production of some NHS supplies involves child labour, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. It has launched a campaign seeking to make the fifth of doctors involved in procuring NHS supplies more aware of the ethical dimension of their choices. Eight out of ten doctors are… Read more »
