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BASC has said a new Natural History GCSE will help support the decision makers of the future steer the natural world for years to come. The new GCSE – which is set to launch in September 2025 – has the potential to engage thousands of schoolchildren each year by tackling topics such as conservation, sustainability, species interactions, climate change and… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) will be pushing for “meaningful improvements” within a Defra-published public consultation on a series of proposals to the dog microchipping regulations. The Microchipping of Dogs (England) Regulations were introduced in 2015 to increase re-unification rates of lost and stolen dogs, benefiting dog welfare and saving local authorities… Read more »
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Britain’s most senior judge has painted a worrying picture of the penal system, describing prisons as “social dustbins” for problematic residents. In an interview with the Observer, lord chief justice Lord Phillips said that current levels of overcrowding had made inmate rehabilitation “difficult or impossible”. Last week the government revealed that Britain’s prisons were nearly… Read more »
The home secretary’s plans to build more prisons have been condemned as “desperately short-sighted” after new figures show they will fall far short of the numbers needed. John Reid last week announced the building of 8,000 more prison places in England and Wales, taking the total up to almost 90,000 by 2012. But the latest… Read more »
