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PCC Elections – BASC Needs You

Elections for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) will take place on 2 May 2024 and provide the perfect opportunity for the shooting community to find out where local Police and Crime Commissioner candidates stand on firearms licensing. BASC has launched a contact platform which allows you to search for your local PCC candidates by police… Read more »

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Assisted dying proposals in Jersey lodged – Humanists Comment

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 »

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Poll shows activist support for Prescott

Nearly two-thirds of Labour activists want John Prescott to remain in office, a new poll has shown. The news will boost the position of the beleaguered deputy prime minister, who has faced growing speculation about his political future after his affair with a civil servant was revealed ahead of last month’s local elections. But 56… Read more »

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Iran to consider nuclear incentives

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Tehran will consider a package of incentives agreed by six world powers this week in a bid to persuade the Islamic republic to abandon its controversial nuclear programme. But the hard line president insisted that Iran would not abandon its right to produce nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes…. Read more »