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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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2010 wasn’t just an eventful year – it was an unpredictable one, too. Here’s a selection of the developments which have raised our eyebrows the highest. By Alex Stevenson 10 – A snowplot too far So many plots to oust Gordon Brown had been attempted in the past, and so many had failed, that we… Read more »
