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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is urging supporters of sustainable shooting to take immediate action in response to a petition by Wild Justice calling for a ban on grouse shooting. Many newly elected MPs may be unfamiliar with the environmental, social and economic benefits sustainable grouse shooting delivers, leaving them open to… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has called on the government to press ahead with long promised reforms aimed at controlling the costs of clinical negligence cases. In written evidence to the House of Commons public accounts committee into NHS financial sustainability the MDU explains that the government must introduce legal reforms to the current clinical negligence system… Read more »
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Labour’s Scottish election campaign has been buoyed by more than 150 business leaders speaking out in favour of the union. After the SNP published its 100 List of business leaders backing the nationalist party, pro-union business leaders have taken out a double page advert in the Scotsman praising the strength of the UK. Although the… Read more »
Scottish Labour leader Jack McConnell has attacked the SNP’s plans to replace the council tax with a local income tax, branding aspects of it “scandalous”. Mr McConnell acknowledged that council tax is unpopular but insisted it is the most stable way of funding local government. A local income tax would create the “scandalous” situation where… Read more »
