Terrorism
Delays to firearms licensing are set to reach record highs causing significant complications for certificate holders according to the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). Covid restrictions, regulatory medical involvement and a peak in firearms licensing renewals has caused mass disruption across licensing departments in England and Wales. In… Read more »
Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »
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One of the men arrested in last week’s counter-terrorism raid in Birmingham has been charged with plotting to kidnap and kill a member of the British armed forces. Parviz Khan is one of five men charged by police for offences under the Terrorism Acts 2000 and 2006, and are all set to appear before Westminster… Read more »
Downing Street has rejected claims by one of the nine men arrested by counter-terrorism police in Birmingham last week that Britain is becoming a “police state for Muslims”. Abu Bakr, one of two suspects released without charge by West Midlands police yesterday, said the government’s terror laws were disproportionately targeted at Muslims. In an interview… Read more »
