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BASC responds to Scottish Government’s announcement on deer management

Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary today announced the government’s climate change plans, including details on how these new measures will affect deer management in Scotland. The Scottish Government has stated they ‘will build on the current Cairngorms Deer Pilot to develop a national scheme which incentivises increased management and investment in the venison supply chain’. Peter… Read more »

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Scottish peer and former MP Lord Monro dies
Former Scottish MP Lord Monro dies

The former Scottish MP and Conservative peer, Lord Monro of Langholm, has died at the age of 85. Hector Monro was MP for Dumfries for 33 years, before entering the House of Lords as a life peer in 1997. Born in October 1922 in Edinburgh, he was educated at Canford school and then King’s College… Read more »

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Home Office introduces new offence of downloading and possessing violent pornography
Ministers act against violent porn

People downloading violent and extreme pornographic material could be jailed for up to three years under new proposals announced by the Home Office today. Minister Vernon Coaker said he would bring forward new legislation to make it illegal for the first time to possess pornography showing scenes of extreme sexual violence. The news will be… Read more »