A report on the BBC’s rural coverage has revealed the organisation is failing rural viewers, including shooters.
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BBC disappoints rural viewers
Tagged with: 2014, basc, BBC, BBC Trust, Countryfile, Countryside Alliance, coverage, Heather Hancock, report, uk
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Grouse moor licensing could cause unemployment
Petition for upland grouse moor licensing causes serious debate among shooting organisations, warning that such as system would cost jobs, depopulate the countryside, and limit biodiversity.
Tagged with: 2014, basc, Countryside Alliance, e-petition, raptor persecution, threatens countryside communities, uk, unemployment, upland grouse moor licensing
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Past conditional, future perfect?
Conditions on firearm certificates are a bugbear for many shooters. Helena Douglas takes a look at the practicalities of new proposals to simplify licence conditions. It is a criminal offence to fail to comply with a condition on a firearm certificate. Doing so…
Shot for the pot
Shot for the Pot is a fundraiser aimed at promoting and celebrating British wild game. Countryside Alliance members are invited to sign up now to host an event, dinner or drinks party involving wild game and local British produce during the week, which takes place 27…
Viewpoint: semi-autos
It’s the person, not the gun, that matters, says the Countryside Alliance’s David Taylor, who questions the media’s obsession with semi-autos and magazine sizes
Tagged with: Countryside Alliance, guns, Home Office, licence, Parliament, semi-auto, shooting
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Posted in Features, Viewpoint
Spaniels under siege
Gangs of organised criminals are thought to be behind a recent spate of dog thefts and rural crime in the Thames Valley and Hampshire areas.
Tagged with: cocker spaniel, Countryside Alliance, dog, hampshire, Thames Valley, theft
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