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The legalisation of assisted dying in Jersey has taken another step as proposals have been lodged in the States Assembly. Channel Island Humanists welcomes the proposals, as another part of the British Isle moves closer to a compassionate end-of-life law. The proposals will allow residents of Jersey who are intolerably suffering from a physical, incurable condition… Read more »
BASC has welcomed the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defra of a new general licence (GL45) for the release of game birds (pheasant and red legged partridges) on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. After the chaos of last year’s announcement at short notice, BASC has achieved significant improvements to… Read more »
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It is being reported that an Israeli fighter plane has targeted the Gaza Strip home of a Palestinian militant leader in a missile attack. Several people were injured when the missile hit the two-storey home of Abdullah Shami who was not in the building at the time. However Israel has denied targeting the leader of… Read more »
New York illusionist David Blaine at 22:00BST last night emerged from his self-imposed solitary confinement. He has spent 44 days suspended in a glass box next to London’s Tower Bridge, with apparently only one tube for water for sustenance and another for urinating. The 30-year-old Blaine was cheered after he left his 7 feet-by-7 feet-by-3… Read more »
