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Yesterday the Government announced proposals to introduce outdoor civil marriages at approved premises on a permanent basis and to also introduce outdoor religious marriages, but failed to make any similar reforms to legally recognise humanist marriages. Humanists UK has urged the Government to act now to legally recognise humanist marriages without delay. Humanists UK Chief… Read more »
Yesterday, the Government published its long-awaited proposals on reforming the Human Rights Act. If passed into law, these reforms will have a devastating impact on the fundamental rights of humanists. The Government has announced it wants to reform section 3 of the Act to severely curtail the ability of public authorities and the courts to ‘read… Read more »
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John Prescott has agreed to give up his country estate at Dorneywood, saying the row about his continued presence there was getting in the way of his job. The deputy prime minister has been under fire for holding on to the official home in Buckinghamshire after losing his departmental responsibilities in the reshuffle last month…. Read more »
The race riots in Burnley in 2001 were in part caused by resentment over unequal council spending and a failure of local leaders to explain their actions, a new report finds. Research by the Burnley Action Partnership admits that efforts to regenerate certain, often predominately Asian, areas of the town ignited existing racial tensions and… Read more »
