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Phoenix Insights is a longevity think tank, set up by the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business Phoenix Group, with a mission to address the possibilities and challenges that come from longer lives. Phoenix Insights wants to lead fresh debate, prompt national conversations, and inspire the action needed to make better longer lives a… Read more »

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Humanists UK

Humanists UK – Think for yourself, act for everyone At Humanists UK, we want a tolerant world where rational thinking and kindness prevail. We work to support lasting change for a better society, championing ideas for the one life we have. We do this because we’re humanists, people who shape our own lives in the here… Read more »

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Medical Defence Union (MDU)

The MDU is a not-for-profit, mutual organisation wholly dedicated to our members’ interests. Our team is led and staffed by doctors with real-life experience of the pressures and challenges faced in practice. Since 1885, we have been indemnifying doctors for incidents arising from their clinical care of patients. We are proud of our heritage, but… Read more »

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National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO)

For 100 years, NARPO has provided an important voice for retired police officers across England and Wales, as well as their widows, widowers and former partners. Representing more than 89,000 members, NARPO is one of the largest public sector pensioner organisations in the country. Its aim is to safeguard the rights of members and to promote… Read more »

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National Office of Animal Health (NOAH)

The animal medicines industry is dedicated to providing safe, effective, quality products for the treatment and welfare of all animals, large or small. The National Office of Animal Health (NOAH) has been representing the companies that research, develop, manufacture and market licensed animal medicines in the UK since 1986. It replaced the Animal Health Register… Read more »

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Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union

The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) is a trade union of workers in the food industry. It was founded in 1847, in Manchester, by a group of Journeymen Bakers.  The next year, the organisation began to operate on a national level, and became the Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers. In 1861 it played a… Read more »

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British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC)

Founded in 1908, The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), formerly the Wildfowlers’ Association of Great Britain and Ireland (WAGBI), is the largest fieldsports organisation in the UK. It campaigns to protect and promote country shooting and conservation. Country shooting includes live quarry shooting of game, wildfowl and the management of pest species. Today… Read more »

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Postal services bill goes awol
Postal services bill ‘lost in the post’

By Alex Stevenson The government remains cagey on the whereabouts of the postal services bill, which may not now be debated in the Commons before the summer recess. It has attracted massive opposition from Labour backbenchers angered by business secretary Lord Mandelson’s determination to sell a minority stake in the Royal Mail to a foreign… Read more »

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The Court of Appeal ruled in a landmark decision on the admissions criteria used by faith schools
Jewish school ‘breaches race relations’

By Liz Stephens The qualification for admission to the Jews’ Free School (JFS) is a test of ethnicity and not religion and is therefore in breach of the Race Relations Act, the Court of Appeal ruled today. In a landmark decision on the admissions criteria used by faith schools, the Court of Appeal found that… Read more »