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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By Peter Wozniak Over-regulation and a lack of new specialist posts are set to put the NHS under ever-incresing strain, warn the UK Royal College of Physicians (RCP). The RCP’s 2009 census of physicians raised concerns that although the number of consultant posts increased by 10.2%, this will not continue as funding becomes less forthcoming… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson, Peter Wozniak and Ian Dunt The tuition fees vote has prompted fresh outbursts of violence among student protesters in Parliament Square and beyond. After an afternoon and evening of clashes between riot police and protesters in Parliament Square, fighting started to break out throughout the centre of the capital. In Trafalgar Square… Read more »
