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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The Office of Fair Trading has appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Bart Smith as its first chief operating officer. Mr Smith, currently director of performance improvement consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers, will head the OFT’s resources and services teams, bringing together the management of finance, human resources and business infrastructure. The establishment of the post of COO is part of… Read more »
Four new commissioners have been appointed to the Equal Opportunities Commission by Minister for Women Patricia Hewitt. The appointees include Mohammed Aziz, director of Faithwise and already a commissioner at the Commission for Racial Equality, and Frances Hasler, head of user and public involvement at the Commission for Social Care Inspection will join the commission… Read more »
