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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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Alistair Darling speaks out at Mansion House
Darling backs UK economy as stormclouds gather

Alistair Darling sounded a note of reassurance in his first Mansion House speech as chancellor. The chancellor said Britain was on firm ground and not in danger of returning to the dark days of the 1970s in yesterday evening’s speech. Foreign influences, rather than domestic pressures, are influencing inflation, he argued. But opposition parties criticised… Read more »

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Labour supporters deserting the party
Labour risks public sector voter exodus, poll warns

Traditional Labour supporters are now less likely to vote for their party at the next election, a poll has found. The research, conducted by pollsters Ipsos Mori for public services union Unison, found 47 per cent of longstanding Labour backers are less likely to vote for the party since 2005. It shows public sector workers… Read more »