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During last night’s late night sitting in the House of Lords, running beyond 2am, peers voted to allow women to continue to access abortion services at home. Prior to Covid, women were required to attend a clinic in person to access abortion pills. But since then, they have been able to receive the pills by post. The… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has committed to contributing £75,000 towards Natural England’s hen harrier recovery work over the next three years, via its Legacy Fund. Three annual payments of £25,000 will aid Natural England’s objectives of winter roost monitoring, support and education around diversionary feeding, and the southern reintroduction of the species. The three-year agreement follows… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Hopes of a breakthrough in Anglo-Russian relations are being downplayed as the foreign secretary visits the country for the first time in five years. It has been half a decade since a foreign secretary has visited Russia, but hostility over the Litvinenko affair, among a host of foreign policy issues, means progress… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The Conservatives will end aid to Moscow if they attain power, the shadow development secretary announced today. Speaking to the party’s conference in Manchester, Andrew Mitchell criticised a government strategy which sees aid go to a country with a GDP of over a trillion dollars and say the Tories will give the… Read more »
