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    It’s no joke

    Jul 02, 2019 3 minutes

    Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into,” is a line from Laurel and Hardy. It’s not so funny when it refers to the antics of Natural England (NE), the government body charged with implementing the conditions of the general licence, the legislation that allows us shooters to control certain wild birds — in my case woodpigeons.

    As soon as NE realised it had been presiding over lawfully flawed licences, after having it pointed out to them by a television presenter, it

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