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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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The head of Imperial Tobacco admitted yesterday there was no such thing as a “safe cigarette.” Defending Imperial Tobacco at the Court of Session in Edinburgh yesterday, CEO Gareth Davies said smokers were more likely to develop serious diseases such as lung cancer. But he qualified his remarks by saying that smoking did not necessarily… Read more »
A small firm in North Wales is close to penning a major contract with the US space agency Nasa. Caernarfon-based PPM Technology Ltd has been approached by Nasa to supply safety devices. Should the deal be secured, astronauts on board the International Space Station will use hand-held and fixed monitoring meters to check for dangerous… Read more »
