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PCC Elections – BASC Needs You

Elections for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) will take place on 2 May 2024 and provide the perfect opportunity for the shooting community to find out where local Police and Crime Commissioner candidates stand on firearms licensing. BASC has launched a contact platform which allows you to search for your local PCC candidates by police… Read more »

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Assisted dying proposals in Jersey lodged – Humanists Comment

The legalisation of assisted dying in Jersey has taken another step as proposals have been lodged in the States Assembly. Channel Island Humanists welcomes the proposals, as another part of the British Isle moves closer to a compassionate end-of-life law. The proposals will allow residents of Jersey who are intolerably suffering from a physical, incurable condition… Read more »

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MS sufferer denied euthanasia judgement
MS sufferer denied euthanasia judgement

By politics.co.uk staff A woman suffering from multiple sclerosis has lost an appeal to clarify the UK law on assisted suicide. Debbie Purdy, 45, wants to determine whether her husband Omar Puente will be prosecuted if he helps her travel to a Swiss suicide clinic. But three court of appeal judges ruled that Ms Purdy,… Read more »

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Gordon Brown remains firm on assisted suicide
Brown firm on assisted suicide

By Alex Stevenson The government has no intention of legalising assisted suicide, Gordon Brown has made clear. The prime minister said he was “totally against laws on that [issue]” in an interview with the leader of the Catholic church in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, for the Today programme. “It’s not really for us… Read more »