The legalisation of assisted dying in Jersey has taken another step as proposals have been lodged in the States Assembly. Channel Island Humanists welcomes the proposals, as another part of the British Isle moves closer to a compassionate end-of-life law. The proposals will allow residents of Jersey who are intolerably suffering from a physical, incurable condition… Read more »
BASC has welcomed the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defra of a new general licence (GL45) for the release of game birds (pheasant and red legged partridges) on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. After the chaos of last year’s announcement at short notice, BASC has achieved significant improvements to… Read more »
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Two British soldiers have been sent home from Iraq after allegations surfaced that they had beaten Iraqi prisoners of war. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the soldiers had been flown out of Iraq and stressed that any mistreatment of PoWs would be punished. The two soldiers are believed to have been flown to… Read more »
The Prime Minister Tony Blair has emphatically restated his rejection of claims that Number Ten doctored security information in order to garner public support for war against Iraq. The allegations arose from comments made to the BBC by an unnamed senior British official, who reportedly claimed that a document on Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of… Read more »
