BASC’s head of firearms Bill Harriman has written to the Chief Constable of West Mercia Police to challenge its decision to make all applications for firearms and shotgun certificates online only. The force announced this week that from 1 May printed applications would no longer be accepted. In a letter to Chief Constable Alex Murray,… Read more »
Humanists UK has reacted to news that the Government is proposing to allow new state schools to discriminate in 100% of their places, condemning the move and calling instead for an end to all discrimination in the state school system. Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson said: ‘The proposal to allow 100% religious discrimination in… Read more »
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Prime Minister Tony Blair’s popularity rating took a battering after the shock resignation of former international development minister Clare Short, according to a new ICM poll. Although the poll of 1,000 adults appearing in today’s Guardian newspaper (interviewed between May 16-18) shows a slip in the PM’s rating, the Labour party still enjoyed a 12-point… Read more »
The UK’s first key hole heart bypass operation has been carried out at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, demonstrating that this less invasive technique is a viable alternative to traditional open heart surgery. Mr Roberto Casula and his colleagues made only four small incisions in their patient’s chest through which pencil width robotic arms, controlling… Read more »
