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MPs have voted 379 to 137 to back an amendment to take abortion out of English and Welsh criminal law for women in relation to their own pregnancies. Humanists UK has long been alarmed about the growing number of women facing police investigations for this. Today it has expressed delight at MPs standing up for… Read more »
Humanists UK’s Chief Executive Andrew Copson has been awarded an OBE for ‘services to the non-religious’ in the UK national honours announced today. This is the first time an award has been made for services to the non-religious, who now represent a majority of the UK’s population. Andrew Copson has worked for Humanists UK since… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson Ed Miliband urged business figures to help him sell the transition to a low-carbon economy to the public yesterday. The energy and climate change secretary was speaking at the launch of a new initiative, Carbon Connect, in Westminster. He said the government was committed to achieving a landmark agreement at Copenhagen later… Read more »
By Liz Stephens If the UK is to have any chance of developing new green technologies, consumers will need to pay more for energy, a group of leading scientists and engineers has said. The Royal Society study, which was published today, also calls for the government to prioritise research into alternative energies, calling current climate… Read more »
