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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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By Ian Dunt Labour has edged ahead of the Conservatives following the spending review, according to a new poll. The ComRes poll for the Independent put the opposition on 37%, two points ahead of the Tories on 35%. It is the second national poll to put the party ahead of the government since the spending… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Margaret Thatcher will leave hospital today, two weeks after being admitted with flu symptoms. The former prime minister fell ill shortly before her 85th birthday, so that she was unable to attend a party organised in her honour at No 10. She was later admitted to hospital on October 19th, though her… Read more »
