The High Court will consider a challenge to the laws requiring faith-based Christian religious education (RE) and collective worship in schools in Northern Ireland today. A non-religious family is mounting the legal challenge arguing the exclusively Christian nature of RE and worship violates their human rights. The case is being supported by Northern Ireland Humanists…. Read more »
Improvement to firearms licence condition welcomed by BASC Northern Ireland The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has welcomed the introduction of a firearms certificate condition that will allow the licence holder to shoot any lawful quarry on land where they have the authority to shoot. The condition known… Read more »
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By Ian Dunt ID cards have finally reached the Commons again, with a Conservative opposition day debate on the scheme due for debate this afternoon. The opposition is calling for the plan to be scrapped altogether. This has been given additional momentum by Alan Johnson’s decision to make the scheme entirely voluntary for its duration…. Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Gordon Brown has met with French president Nicolas Sarkozy ahead of this week’s G8 summit. The prime minister flew to Evian this morning for the bilateral meeting in the run-up to the L’Aquila summit, which begins on Wednesday. The pair agreed to stand “shoulder to shoulder” at the G8 as they set… Read more »
