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Rally outside Parliament as MPs to debate assisted dying

Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision (MDMD) will be holding a rally on Parliament Square on 29 April at 15:30 to show their support for assisted dying legislation for the terminally ill and the incurably suffering. On Monday the House of Commons will be holding a Westminster Hall debate on assisted dying after an… Read more »

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Defra to review GL45 in light of reduction of AI risk

BASC has welcomed Defra’s announcement that the new General Licence (GL45), which governs the release of pheasants and red-legged partridges on and around certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs), is currently being reviewed. The current licence conditions are based on a medium level of risk of the occurrence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in wild… Read more »

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Video footage shows Ian Tomlinson falling to the ground
Lawyers withhold Tomlinson post-mortem

By politics.co.uk staff A third post-mortem of Ian Tomlinson, the man who died after being pushed to the ground at G20 protests last year, has been withheld from the coroner. The Crown Prosecution Service and Independent Police Complaints Commission are also understood not to have seen the examination, conducted by a forensic pathologist. The post-mortem… Read more »

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The TUC has raised the spectre of Margaret Thatcher's ill-fated poll tax
TUC: Cuts will incite ‘poll tax’-scale revolt

by Peter Wozniak The government’s push for deficit reduction will lead to public unrest on the same scale as during Margaret Thatcher’s failed attempt to introduce a poll tax, the Trades Union Congress has argued. Kicking off a campaign to oppose the coalition’s spending cuts at the grassroots level, the TUC implied that the government’s… Read more »