The Scottish SPCA is set to get more investigatory powers, including those that allow it to conduct searches and seize evidence
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‘Scottish RSPCA’ gets prosecution powers
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CA chair speaks out on ‘sinister and nasty’ RSPCA
Countryside Alliance chairman Barney White Spunner, in a front-page newspaper interview, has criticised the RSPCA for its recent focus on litigation over animal welfare
RSPCA distances itself from May
The RSPCA was quick to distance itself from a diatribe from Brian May in which he compared critics of the charity to paedophiles. The musician and campaigner said arguing against RSPCA prosecutions was like saying paedophiles should not be put on trial, and singled out…
BASC enters row over RSPCA info sharing
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation has written to the chief constables of 10 police forces in England and Wales seeking formal assurances that they do not allow the RSPCA to have access to firearms licensing information
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Firearms licensing information should be closely safeguarded, says BASC’s director of firearms Bill Harriman – so why is the RSPCA allowed access to it?
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Mass deer cull ‘necessary’
Around 50% of Britain’s deer population needs to be culled each year to ‘protect the countryside’, according to a study published in the Journal of Wildlife Management.
