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MPs have voted 379 to 137 to back an amendment to take abortion out of English and Welsh criminal law for women in relation to their own pregnancies. Humanists UK has long been alarmed about the growing number of women facing police investigations for this. Today it has expressed delight at MPs standing up for… Read more »
Humanists UK’s Chief Executive Andrew Copson has been awarded an OBE for ‘services to the non-religious’ in the UK national honours announced today. This is the first time an award has been made for services to the non-religious, who now represent a majority of the UK’s population. Andrew Copson has worked for Humanists UK since… Read more »
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Britain’s second-biggest selling daily newspaper, The Daily Mail, after dragging its feet for some time, is to embrace the internet revolution and put out an Web version of its product. The right-wing daily will go electronic in February 2004 at DailyMail.co.uk and MailOnSunday.co.uk. It is thought The Daily Mail will put out half to two… Read more »
The Foreign Office has lifted its warning against “non-essential” travel to major cities in Turkey. A statement said the revised advice came in response to a change in the assessment of “the immediate threat.” Travellers were warned last month against all but essential travel after the terrorist bomb attacks on the British consulate, the Turkish… Read more »
