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Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Munira Wilson MP has tabled an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to keep the 50% cap on faith-based admissions in new religious schools. Since 2011 all new state schools have had to be free schools and they have been subject to such a cap. But the Schools Bill is set… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has warned that the government’s decision to significantly increase firearms licensing fees poses a threat to rural livelihoods and fails to deal with gross inefficiencies which in many cases provides an unacceptable service. Moreover, an inefficient system is an ineffective system, and this puts public safety at… Read more »
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Defence secretary John Hutton has said UK forces will leave Iraq by the end of 2009. Speaking at a joint meeting of the Commons’ defence and foreign affairs committees, Mr Hutton said British forces would be able to withdraw from Basra before the next election. He pointed out the security situation in the south of… Read more »
Israeli and Arab representatives meeting in Britain last week have signalled their growing enthusiasm for the Arab League’s peace initiative. Former Israeli government officials met with the former Palestinian national security advisor Saudi prince Turki al-Faisal and others to discuss how to activate the stalled peace plan in Oxfordshire last week. Its ‘land for peace’… Read more »
