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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Ed Miliband talks to politics.co.uk about civil liberties, Tony Blair and why he voted for ID cards. By Ian Dunt Ed Miliband is nice. That’s the first thing I ever heard about him. It came from a civil servant in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Labour had a knack of creating government departments… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Justice minister Jonathan Djangoly has apologised after it emerged he employed private detectives to investigate on local party officials. The Huntingdon MP paid over £5,000 to investigators to probe the loyalty of his colleagues, including his agent, the Telegraph newspaper reported. It suggested he had asked the firm, Morris Chase International, to… Read more »
