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Today the GMC has issued a formal apology for taking regulatory action against a number of doctors because they had convictions based on sexuality. The GMC has said it is ‘truly sorry’ for compounding the harm caused by homophobic laws and attitudes, that were in place into the 1980s and beyond. Reacting to the news, Dr Caroline… Read more »
BASC has welcomed a government decision to launch a public consultation on a proposal to remove sound moderators from firearms licensing controls. Launched today, the Home Office consultation seeks views on proposals to amend the definition of firearm in section 57(1)(d) of the Firearms Act 1968, removing the reference to sound moderators. Currently, sound moderators… Read more »
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One of the foreign terror suspects held without charge in the has been freed. The man, known only as C, has been in prison since December 2001 under the Government’s anti-terrorist legislation. A statement from the Home Office is expected shortly. Egyptian-born C was among a group of foreign nationals being held in the UK… Read more »
Worldwide temperature rises over the next few decades are “virtually unavoidable”, the Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett has said. Speaking at the opening of an international science conference in Exeter on global warming, Ms Beckett said that with these temperature rises “significant impacts” are likely to occur. And she urged the world to join together in… Read more »
