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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House prices rose in September as more buyers entered the market, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) claims. The institution’s latest survey found that, despite prices suffering six consecutive monthly falls this year, the housing market had done better than expected in September. The market cooled earlier this year, after last year saw record… Read more »
Downing Street has announced that elections for the dissolved Northern Ireland Assembly will now take place on November 26th. The announcement came as the IRA was expected to make a landmark statement on disarmament. Discussions on weapons decommissioning between the Ulster Unionist Party and Sinn Fein are believed to have proved constructive and the IRA… Read more »
