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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 »
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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By politics.co.uk staff English hospitals are more productive than those in the devolved regions, despite often having fewer staff per head of the population. Research by the Nuffield Trust over a ten-year-period found the NHS in England had fewer doctors, nurses and managers per capita, but still managed to accomplish more. The comparison was particularly… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson The new chairman of parliament’s all-party group on Russia has pledged to re-engage “positively” with Moscow. Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock, recently elected chair of the Russia group, has welcomed William Hague’s unusual trip to Moscow to meet president Dmitry Medvedev’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. Diplomatic engagement between London and Moscow has… Read more »
