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MPs from the Labour Party, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, and Green Party have come together to back a new amendment to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to allow those with neurodegenerative illnesses to access assisted dying when they have twelve months or fewer to live, rather than six, as currently stipulated in the… Read more »
The UK’s largest shooting organisation has labelled the government’s justification for an increase in firearms licensing fees as bogus and warned that inefficient licensing puts guns in the hands of the wrong people. The comments from the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) come after the association wrote to all PCCs and Chief Constables… Read more »
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Plans are being made for highly skilled NHS specialists to be able to deploy on short assignments with Armed Forces, the health secretary is to announce. Alan Johnson will say this evening that assignments can be undertaken in places like Iraq and Afghanistan without health professionals having to take on a regular role in the… Read more »
British troops will not be withdrawn from Iraq because of continued violence in the southern city of Basra. Defence secretary Des Browne told MPs today that plans to further reduce the number of British troops fighting in the province had been put on hold. In October, 1,000 of the 5,000 British troops fighting in Iraq… Read more »
