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BASC Scotland has reinforced its calls for a community deer management pilot scheme in light of a new round of Scottish government deer contracts. The Scottish government agency responsible for managing publicly-owned forestry – Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) – has announced plans to cull a fifth of Scotland’s wild deer population over the next… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) says it is extremely worrying that the amount of money earmarked to cover the total cost of clinical negligence claims (including both including IBNR and PPOs) against the NHS in England has risen to £128.6 billion. This is an increase on the previous year’s figure of £85.2 billion and the… Read more »
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By Ian Dunt Letters sent by William Hague to the prime minister between 1999 and 2000 in an effort to secure Michael Ashcroft’s peerage look set to prolong the controversy surrounding the party donor. Today’s Guardian also reports that Lord Ashcroft was rejected for a peerage twice specifically because of his tax status. Lord Ashcroft… Read more »
