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A commitment to tackle firearms licensing delays made during a meeting between BASC and Cumbria Police has been reinforced at a follow-up meeting. Cumbria Police revealed during the latest meeting with BASC that it is making rapid progress and has reduced its backlog of renewals by 57 per cent since the introduction of new resources in… Read more »
The Court of Appeal in Kano has drastically reduced the sentence of Mubarak Bala, imprisoned President of the Nigerian Humanist Association, from 24 years to five. The judges unanimously found that his original sentence for blasphemous Facebook posts was excessive and in contravention of the law. Bala has already been in prison for four years, so this… Read more »
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New Conservative party leader David Cameron has named his shadow cabinet, with a return to the front bench for former leader William Hague. Mr Cameron opted to keep leadership rival David Davis in his current post as shadow home secretary, with another former candidate, Liam Fox, moved to defence, and Mr Hague made shadow foreign… Read more »
The first of six new Conservative policy groups has today been set up to help decide the direction of the party under its new leader, David Cameron. The social justice policy group will be chaired by former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith and will look at how to tackle problems in Britain’s inner cities, such… Read more »
