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Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary today announced the government’s climate change plans, including details on how these new measures will affect deer management in Scotland. The Scottish Government has stated they ‘will build on the current Cairngorms Deer Pilot to develop a national scheme which incentivises increased management and investment in the venison supply chain’. Peter… Read more »
The UK Government must carry out long overdue reform of the teaching of Religious Education (RE) in England to meet the needs of modern society, says Humanists UK in response to another Ofsted review. In its deep-dive report into RE – Deep and meaningful? – Ofsted found that the current curriculum often lacks ‘sufficient substance to… Read more »
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South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu last night called on Tony Blair and George Bush to admit they were mistaken about the “counterproductive and immoral” war in Iraq. Delivering the Longford Lecture to a receptive audience at Church House in Westminster, the Emeritus Archbishop of Cape Town said the war proved it was illusory to believe… Read more »
The head of the United Nations atomic watchdog, Mohamed El Baradei, will visit Libya next week to assess the progress made on scrapping Tripoli’s nuclear arms programme. On December 19th, Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi said the North African state wanted to de-burden itself of weapons of mass destruction. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), alongside… Read more »