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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 »
BASC has welcomed the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defra of a new general licence (GL45) for the release of game birds (pheasant and red legged partridges) on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. After the chaos of last year’s announcement at short notice, BASC has achieved significant improvements to… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson and Ian Dunt The City’s bankers found themselves £800 million worse off this morning after chancellor George Osborne unexpectedly hiked taxes. The bank levy, a permanent annual tax rather than a windfall levy, was originally being phased in to the full 0.075% rate. This morning Mr Osborne scrapped the incremental rate with… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Nine Liberal Democrat MPs have called on the coalition to "reconsider" its plans to sell off the country's forests. In the first signs of dissent on the government's backbenches, a Commons motion tabled by Lib Dem Greg Mulholland expressed concern that a planned consultation would be "genuine". The early day motion highlights… Read more »
