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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 Ian Dunt Phil Woolas faces his last chance to save his political career early next week, as he launches an application for judicial review. The former immigration minister managed to drum up £30,000 in 24 hours for his legal fighting fund, after friends and fellow Labour MPs got behind him. Most legal experts believe… Read more »
By Ian Dunt A Conservative councillor for Birmingham City has been suspended from the party and arrested after he called for the stoning to death of a newspaper columnist. Gareth Compton made the remarks about female Muslim Independent commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on Twitter. “Can someone please stone Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to death? I shan’t tell Amnesty… Read more »
