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Tomorrow, MPs are expected to finish the Report Stage of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and cast their final votes at its Third Reading. If MPs vote in favour of the Bill, it will then head to the House of Lords for further scrutiny. Supporters of assisted dying will be gathering on… Read more »
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first legally recognised humanist marriage in Scotland. Over 50,000 humanist weddings have happened since. Humanists UK congratulates Humanist Society Scotland on this momentous occasion and calls for the UK Government to act so that humanists in England and Wales can have the same right to marry in line… 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British troops will not be withdrawn from Iraq because of continued violence in the southern city of Basra.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 »

