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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has donated £15,000 to the Wiltshire-based Great Bustard Group to further its work in re-establishing the species into the wild. The Great Bustard Group was set up in 1998 to explore the possibility of re-establishing the Great Bustard as a self-sustaining species on Salisbury Plain. … Read more »
Kent-based shotgun coach Tom Friar has won the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) Shotgun Coach of the Year award, being presented the shield at this year’s Weston Park County Fair. Usually found teaching at the Kent and Sussex Shooting School and West Kent Shooting School, Tom Friar has been volunteering with BASC… Read more »
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Tony Blair’s final Labour conference address as party leader was described as “the speech of a lifetime” by delegates in Manchester today. “You need that kind of inspirational speech to actually motivate and I think he did a remarkable job,” said Nottingham councillor Malcolm Wood. He told politics.co.uk that the wide-ranging speech, in which Mr… Read more »
Arch Blairite Peter Mandelson has said Gordon Brown never got over losing out on leadership of the Labour party in 1994. A “deep breach” opened up between the Brown-Blair camps after the latter was elected party leader, the EU trade commissioner claimed. However, he insisted the prime minister would welcome Mr Brown as future leader…. Read more »
