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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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The Government is set to trial a more rigorous version of the A-Level “gold standard” next year, Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has said. From 2006, bright students will take exams with an optional set of questions at the end of the paper. The Department of Education and Skills is hopeful the test scheme will be… Read more »
The Government has been too slow to make the case for the UK keeping its EU budget rebate, a senior Tory MEP has claimed. Edward McMillan-Scott, a vice president of the European Parliament, accused the Prime Minister of only just having made the link between the rebate and wider EU budget reforms. Tony Blair faces… Read more »
