News
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 »
Latest articles
A senior Cabinet minister has denied that the government is out of touch with ordinary people. Home secretary Jacqui Smith has insisted the government is listening to the British people after a junior minister said Labour had become an establishment party. Ms Smith is due to launch a new neighbourhood policing plan with Gordon Brown… Read more »
Defence secretary Des Browne has called for the government to hold talks with Afghan Islamist rebel group, the Taliban. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Mr Browne said negotiations with terrorist groups in Northern Ireland managed to broker an agreement that enabled peace in the country. Speaking to the paper, he said: “What you… Read more »
