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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A new report from Alcohol Concern has found that twice as many people are dying from drinking too much today compared to the 1970’s. The figures revealed at its Legal But Lethal conference show that almost 6,000 people died due to the directly attributable affects of alcohol in 2001. This compares to only 1,498 deaths… Read more »
The Health Service Ombudsman, Ann Abraham, has announced a sharp rise in the number of complaints about the NHS in the last year. To the end of the last financial year she received almost four thousand complaints, a significant number more than the 2,660 received the year before. While this appears to indicate a significant… Read more »
