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BASC at the Royal Welsh Show
BASC will be at the Royal Welsh Show 2017, promoting shooting and conservation.
BASC Northern Ireland
Petition calls for Sunday shooting of pest birds to be legalised in NI
BASC NI has recently launched a petition calling on the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) to amend General Licences to allow the shooting of pest birds on Sundays. Currently, the General Licences allow authorised persons to kill or take pest birds in order to conserve wild birds, preserve public health Read more…
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BASC at the Country Show at Harewood
BASC will have a presence at Countryman Fairs’ Country Show at Harewood, which will be held in the grounds of Yorkshire’s Harewood estate on 17th and 18th June.
BASC North
In Memoriam – Jeff Almond
Dear BASC, I have just read what is probably my last BASC magazine. My husband Jeff, 72, died in March, and he had been a BASC member (originally WAGBI) since 1962, the year before we married. Shooting was his life. He went wildfowling and clay pigeon shooting. He could repair Read more…
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BASC NI launches new grey squirrel courses
Courses will outline trapping and dispatch methods and cover wildlife legislation.
BASC Scotland
Montrose Wildfowlers Lose Founding Member
It is with great sadness that I have to report the death of Larry Martin. Larry was a founder member of Montrose and District Wildfowlers in 1959 and had served on the committee in one form or another since then. In his later years Larry was treasurer and kept everything Read more…
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BASC seeks views on PSNI licensing plans
Consultation launched on proposals for entirely online firearms licensing system.
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BASC provides bird ‘flu update following latest Defra announcement
BASC is advising members that measures currently in place to reduce the risk of Avian Influenza in England will be lifted from 15 May 2017.
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‘Keepers brush up their skills at BASC grey squirrel control course
Gamekeepers and members of a number of shoots across North Wales joined local volunteers to brush up their grey squirrel control skills at a training event organised by BASC.
