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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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The antibiotic resistance of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) gonorrhoea has spiralled, according to new research published today. The report, published in the Lancet, shows that almost one in ten cases in England and Wales are resistant to the key antibiotic used to treat the infection. The findings – which show that the rate of… Read more »
The Prime Minister Tony Blair has dismissed as ‘completely absurd’ allegations that a government report on Iraq’s purported weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was rewritten for political purposes. The allegations arose from comments made to the BBC by an unnamed senior British official, who reportedly claimed that a document on Saddam Hussein’s weapons capabilities was… Read more »
