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Rally outside Parliament as MPs to debate assisted dying

Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision (MDMD) will be holding a rally on Parliament Square on 29 April at 15:30 to show their support for assisted dying legislation for the terminally ill and the incurably suffering. On Monday the House of Commons will be holding a Westminster Hall debate on assisted dying after an… Read more »

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Defra to review GL45 in light of reduction of AI risk

BASC has welcomed Defra’s announcement that the new General Licence (GL45), which governs the release of pheasants and red-legged partridges on and around certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs), is currently being reviewed. The current licence conditions are based on a medium level of risk of the occurrence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in wild… Read more »

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Speed camera numbers have rocketed this decade
Tories give red light to speed cameras

By politics.co.uk staff Expansion of speed cameras would be blocked under a Conservative government, Theresa Villiers has said. The shadow transport secretary plans launched a charm offensive against Britain’s motorists by pledging to block applications for new speed cameras. “Labour’s army of speed cameras is not the best way to make our roads safer,” she… Read more »

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Two teenage girls jumped from the Erskine Bridge in Renfrewshire on Sunday night.
Sheridan calls for bridge deaths inquiry

By Liz Stephens Scottish MP Jim Sheridan has called for an inquiry after two teenage girls jumped off a bridge near Glasgow in an alleged suicide pact. The girls left a residential care home for young people with behavioural and emotional difficulties, apparently unsupervised, and leapt 100ft to their deaths. The MP for Paisley and… Read more »