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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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Sixty-one people were killed and dozens wounded in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, in what has been described as one of the most troubled periods of civil unrest for President Hamid Karzai’s inchoate government in more than a year. In the southern province of Helmand, a bomb killed 17 people onboard a bus, according… Read more »
Working mothers who feel guilty about leaving their children could be reassured by the latest research from Bristol university. Having reported earlier in the summer that children of working mothers suffer no psychological ill effects, the team at Bristol has now claimed that a child’s cognitive development – how well they can read, write and… Read more »