Enter the Countryside Alliance Shoot Day Draw for your chance to win an exceptional day’s shooting at Holkham Hall in Norfolk ...
A fundraising appeal to plant a woodland in memory of a countryside-loving hunt secretary has been launched following her death. Becca Bullock, who died tragically last month, aged 31, was a ...
Firearms ownership at risk as police watchdog makes raft of disastrous recommendations to government
His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabularies (HMIC), the statutory police regulator, has made 23 recommendations on reforming firearms licensing in a report published today (28 August 2026). Our ...
There have been plenty of people giving their views on the role rewilding has played in the recent spate of wildfires and I am not going to add to them. What has been interesting, however, is to see ...
The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) has published the latest league table with performance data of the 43 police firearms licensing departments in England and Wales, representing the three ...
The Countryside Alliance held its annual ‘Rural Oscars’ awards ceremony on Wednesday 8 July at the House of Lords in London, kindly hosted by Lord Hart of Tenby. The event was attended by both MPs and ...
The threats to game shooting are real, and to underestimate them would be very unwise. The government’s recent announcement that it is to explore licensing and any associated conditions for ...
The Countryside Alliance has welcomed renewed calls for mandatory origin labelling on food products, as the Labour Rural Research Group (LRRG) urges the Department for Environment, Food and Rural ...
In the Houses of Parliament, a new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Wildfires has recently been formed by Alison Hume, Labour MP for Scarborough and Whitby. Last summer’s fire on Fylingdales ...
Andy Burnham now looks certain to become Prime Minister, probably within weeks, and will reshape the government to deliver his agenda. Who he appoints as Defra Secretary and in the department’s other ...
The government has today published its long-awaited Green Paper on the future of media and broadcasting, setting out proposals that could lead to the closure of the Freeview television platform from ...
A new scientific report commissioned by Natural England and conducted by the GWCT has found that pheasant releasing does not cause declines in insect populations. Reviewing pheasants' diet, the ...
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