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BASC has introduced venison to more than 10,000 children at food and farming days in Essex, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire over the past month. The BASC Eastern team attended three events where they cooked venison tasters and gave talks about the health benefits of eating this delicious source of protein.
NOAH has released a manifesto for the upcoming European Parliament elections, setting out its vision for animal health, welfare and sustainability in the UK and across Europe.
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Justice secretary Jack Straw has called for a national conversation about the use of prison, after warning it will not be possible to build a way out of the prison crisis. In an interview with the Times, Mr Straw said the prison service needed to consider sending fewer people to jail and instead increase the… Read more »
Up to 1,200 criminals will be released early today to relieve the overcrowded prison system. The former lord chancellor Lord Falconer conceded earlier this month that the government would have to cut short some offenders’ sentences after the prison population reached a record 81,000. His successor Jack Straw confirmed today the scheme would continue for… Read more »