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A commitment to tackle firearms licensing delays made during a meeting between BASC and Cumbria Police has been reinforced at a follow-up meeting. Cumbria Police revealed during the latest meeting with BASC that it is making rapid progress and has reduced its backlog of renewals by 57 per cent since the introduction of new resources in… Read more »
The Court of Appeal in Kano has drastically reduced the sentence of Mubarak Bala, imprisoned President of the Nigerian Humanist Association, from 24 years to five. The judges unanimously found that his original sentence for blasphemous Facebook posts was excessive and in contravention of the law. Bala has already been in prison for four years, so this… Read more »
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Boris Johnson came under pressure to scrap Barclays’ prominent sponsorship of London’s ‘Boris bikes’ today, amid a spectacular row over its business practices and demands for Bob Diamond to step down for the bank’s manipulation of the interbank lending rate Libor.
David Cameron appears unruffled after Tory eurosceptics bared their teeth with a letter demanding a referendum on Britain’s relationship with Europe.
