A commitment to tackle firearms licensing delays made during a meeting between BASC and Cumbria Police has been reinforced at a follow-up meeting. Cumbria Police revealed during the latest meeting with BASC that it is making rapid progress and has reduced its backlog of renewals by 57 per cent since the introduction of new resources in… Read more »
The Court of Appeal in Kano has drastically reduced the sentence of Mubarak Bala, imprisoned President of the Nigerian Humanist Association, from 24 years to five. The judges unanimously found that his original sentence for blasphemous Facebook posts was excessive and in contravention of the law. Bala has already been in prison for four years, so this… Read more »
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Administrators to MG Rover have revealed that more than 5,000 redundancies will have to occur at the carmaker’s Longbridge plant. The announcement follows the conformation that this week’s attempts to re-open discussions with the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) about a possible takeover have failed. Letters have gone out to those who will lose their… Read more »
Michael Howard has today attacked the current pension system, claiming that the older generation had been humiliated and “airbrushed out of Blair’s Britain”. Mr Howard promised that a future Conservative government would restore their dignity by scrapping means testing for pension benefits. Labour though claim that means testing has allowed them to help the poorest… Read more »
