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BASC given permission to bring judicial review of Defra decision

  The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has been granted permission by the High Court to bring a judicial review of Defra’s decision to withdraw the general licence (GL43) that allowed the release of gamebirds in certain areas of England. BASC’s ‘Fighting Fund’ is being used to support the High Court challenge. BASC chief executive Ian… Read more »

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Cuts to Defra raise concerns over flood defences
MPs warn of flood defence funding gap

By politics.co.uk staff Cuts to funding for flood defences could leave five million properties temporarily at risk, MPs have claimed. The environment and rural affairs committee used its report out today to suggest that plans to shift the burden for funding of defences on to at-risk communities may not come quickly enough. It warned: “There… Read more »