A UK Government petition to hold a parliamentary vote on assisted dying has passed 100,000 signatures in less than a month, and will be considered for Westminster Hall debate in Parliament. Humanists UK has welcomed the news, thanked members and supporters who have already signed and encouraged others to add their signatures. This petition calls for… Read more »
Doctors are being advised by the Medical Defence Union (MDU) to only post information on private WhatsApp groups and other social messaging services that they would be happy to be made public. The MDU issued the advice as new guidance from the General Medical Council (GMC) on doctors’ use of social media takes effect today. It is… Read more »
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Three-quarters of the companies taking advantage of the newly deregulated directory enquiries market failed to come up to scratch, according to the latest report from consumer magazine ‘Which?’. In August this year the new services were officially launched and the old 192 service run by BT was scrapped in order to make the market more… Read more »
A jury at the Old Bailey heard today that Ian Huntley’s hair was found mixed in with Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman’s clothes in a bin at their school. The clothes were discovered on August 16th, nearly two weeks after the ten-year-olds disappeared from their hometown of Soham, Cambridgeshire. On the second day of opening… Read more »
