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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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In a scathing attack on Liz Truss and her economic vision, former Bank of England governor Mark Carney accused the former PM of turning Britain into “Argentina on the Channel”. Carney also suggested that Brexiteers, whom the former Conservative leader claimed to champion during her short tenure as PM, had a “basic misunderstanding of what… Read more »
In the next few hours, Joe Biden will arrive at No 10 for his sixth official meeting with Rishi Sunak. The US president touched down at Stansted Airport on Sunday evening before being taken by helicopter to the residence of the US ambassador in central London. Mr Biden’s stopover in Britain comes ahead of a… Read more »