BASC North

A renowned wildlife artist has produced this year?s Wildlife Habitat Trust stamp artwork ‘White-fronted Geese on the Severn’.

BASC has asked for a meeting with the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) to discuss the lifting of the ban on advertising shooting related activities and businesses on television and radio.

Robert Irvine has been re-elected as chairman of BASC?s council at a meeting following the association?s AGM on 13 June. Mike Sherman was re-elected as vice-chairman. Four new people ? Helen Cormack, Michael Smith, Peter Glenser and Alan Balfour ? have also been elected to BASC council.

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A Scottish daily newspaper – the Press & Journal – has reported on a new initiative to promote the eating of wild Scottish venison.

BASC has made a deal with a top clothing company that will save the association thousands of pounds.

A new condition for firearms certificates, which would allow shooters with larger calibre rifles to take smaller pest species, has been approved by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Firearms and Explosives Licensing Working Group (FELWG).

It may be an inner-city pub but at the Angel, writes JEFFREY OLSTEAD, you?ll find superb game cooking and locals who are flocking to country sports.