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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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Tony Blair is leaving behind an “historic” school building programme, he claimed today, as he toured new and improved schools across the country. The outgoing prime minister has been visiting schools with the education secretary Alan Johnson to highlight the £31 billion the Labour government has invested in improved facilities. School investment has been “Victorian”… Read more »
Britain’s schools have reached a ceiling of achievement because of government interference, a headteachers’ union leader has said. Mick Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of Headteachers, made the claim in his union’s annual conference in Bournemouth this morning. He said that while Britain’s schools have improved on the low standards of the early… Read more »
