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The Ribble Estuary’s Hutton Marsh set for conservation boost

The Preston and District Wildfowling Association (PDWA) have been awarded a £21,000 grant from the Wildlife Habitat Charitable Trust (WHCT) to improve habitat on the protected Hutton Marsh in the Ribble Estuary. The grant will be used to fund habitat improvements for nesting birds, as well as to encourage water voles and otters into the… Read more »

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North Yorkshire firearms licensing decision a breach of statutory duty, says BASC

North Yorkshire Police’s decision to halt all firearm and shotgun certificate grants has been described by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), as “a clear breach of their statutory duty”. In correspondence with North Yorkshire MPs, BASC has asked that the force is scrutinised and that they resume… Read more »

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Tough message: Cameron at the Tory party conference
Cameron: ‘Your country needs you’

By Ian Dunt David Cameron has called on Conservatives to work together to improve British society saying: “Your country needs you”. The comments came in a tough message at the closing speech to the Tory party conference in Birmingham which saw the prime minister empliy wartime rhetoric while discussing community and the deficit. “The state… Read more »

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Lord Sugar has expressed his own particular brand of commentary on the coalition government
Sugar: Lib Dems ‘the Leyton Orient of politics’

By Peter Wozniak Alan Sugar has unleashed his own brand of ‘straight-talking’ vitriol at the coalition government, with choice words for the Liberal Democrats and culture secretary Jeremy Hunt. In typically uncompromising language, Lord Sugar, interviewed by BBC radio, had little in the way of warm words for the new government – and told of… Read more »