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The Scottish Government has published its Natural Environment Bill, introducing controversial measures that significantly impact deer managers across Scotland. While the Government claims the Bill will modernise deer management to tackle the climate and nature emergency, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has branded the proposals “draconian”. Key provisions in the Bill include… Read more »
BASC has criticised the government’s decision to grant police automatic powers of entry into the homes of firearms certificate holders as unnecessary and an erosion of civil liberties. The police already have powers of entry to prevent crime and if life is in danger. They can also get a warrant from a magistrate and they… Read more »
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The government has this morning announced emergency measures to ease prison overcrowding by re-activating Operation Early Dawn. Through this mechanism, offenders will be summoned to a magistrates’ court only when it is confirmed that a cell in the prison estate is ready for them, should they then be remanded into custody. Instead they will be… Read more »
Elon Musk has deleted a post on X, the social media platform he owns, in which he spread fake news about “detainment camps” being established in the Falkland Islands. A fake article, mocked up to mimic The Daily Telegraph newspaper’s style, had been shared on X (formerly Twitter) by the co-leader of Britain First, a… Read more »
