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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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Three-quarters of the companies taking advantage of the newly deregulated directory enquiries market failed to come up to scratch, according to the latest report from consumer magazine ‘Which?’. In August this year the new services were officially launched and the old 192 service run by BT was scrapped in order to make the market more… Read more »
A jury at the Old Bailey heard today that Ian Huntley’s hair was found mixed in with Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman’s clothes in a bin at their school. The clothes were discovered on August 16th, nearly two weeks after the ten-year-olds disappeared from their hometown of Soham, Cambridgeshire. On the second day of opening… Read more »
