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EMMA HARPER MSP has been a persistent campaigner for changes to the law around livestock attacks SCOTTISH MSP’S have united in support of a Members Bill to modernise and strengthen legislation regarding livestock attacks. The Scottish Parliament gathered virtually to debate Phase One of Emma Harper’s ‘Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment)(Scotland) Act 2020’ which has received unanimous support on the basis that a number of changes would be made during Stage Two.  The most pressing changes raised were around powers of entry, search and seizure of dogs involved in attacks ...

SNP ministers have been accused of years of delay over plans to hand more powers to the Scottish SPCA to allow it to better investigate wildlife…

Greens co-leader Lorna Slater to contest Edinburgh seat Lorna Slater will challenge Scottish Government minister Ben Macpherson in May (Scottish Green Party/PA) Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater will contest an Edinburgh seat at this year’s Holyrood election, the party has said. Ms Slater will take on Scottish Government minister and incumbent Ben Macpherson for the Edinburgh Northern and Leith seat in May. The co-leader, who lives in Leith, came second to the SNP in a 2019 by-election for the Leith Walk ward on Edinburgh City Council, winning more than 25% of the vote. She said: “I�...

TACKLING RAPTOR persecution, poaching and hare coursing will be the top priorities for Scotland's new wildlife crime specialist, PC Gavin Ross.

IT’S been obvious for over two decades that there is no public appetite in the UK or Europe for genetically modified (GM) food. In October, for instance, when Food Standards Scotland surveyed citizens, it found that only one in ten of us would be likely to buy GM food even if it was significantly cheaper. But the pro-GM lobby never gives up. Now the UK Government wants to change the law in England so that farmers there can use crops and animals created by risky, new-wave genetic engineering techniques, known as genome or gene editing. Before Brexit, this technology was blocked by a 2018...