The government’s new environmental land management schemes are an open door for management practices undertaken for shooting and conservation, says the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The two new schemes unveiled by the Secretary of State for Defra George Eustice at the Oxford Farming Conference will play a pivotal role in the Governments’… Read more »
Yesterday the Government announced proposals to introduce outdoor civil marriages at approved premises on a permanent basis and to also introduce outdoor religious marriages, but failed to make any similar reforms to legally recognise humanist marriages. Humanists UK has urged the Government to act now to legally recognise humanist marriages without delay. Humanists UK Chief… Read more »
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The House of Lords has set up another constitutional clash with the Government by voting down plans to reform the post of Lord Chancellor. Peers voted by 209 to 195 to insist that the Lord Chancellor should always be a senior lawyer. Later, they voted by 215 to 199 to insist that he should be… Read more »
Calls are growing for an independent inquiry into why a paranoid schizophrenic and self-confessed cannibal was released to kill again. Peter Bryan was yesterday sentenced to two life sentences at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of Brian Cherry while an outpatient in an east London hospital. The 35-year-old, who was previously… Read more »
