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North Yorkshire Police’s decision to halt all firearm and shotgun certificate grants has been described by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), as “a clear breach of their statutory duty”. In correspondence with North Yorkshire MPs, BASC has asked that the force is scrutinised and that they resume… Read more »
Jersey’s States Assembly will meet today to discuss proposals from the Citizens’ Jury to change the law for adult islanders with terminal or incurable conditions who have a clear and settled wish to end their lives. Channel Islands Humanists, part of Humanists UK, campaigns to legalise assisted dying for both the terminally ill and incurably suffering. It has… Read more »
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Public transport authorities in Spain have just taken delivery of their first zero-emission Mercedes-Benz Citaro fuel cell engine bus, as part of the European Fuel Cell Bus Project. This is the first of 30 buses with 205 kW Ballard fuel cell engines, from Canada’s Ballard Power Systems in conjunction with DaimlerChrysler, due to arrive in… Read more »
Frantic relatives continue to search the site of a mass grave discovered in Iraq. The vast grave is located just outside the small village of al-Mahawil, about 56 miles (90 kilometres) south of Baghdad and could hold as many as 15,000 bodies of Iraqis killed by Saddam Hussein’s regime. Most of the bodies are believed… Read more »
