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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 »
MPs have finished the Report Stage debate of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, as well as voting on various amendments. More such votes are expected to follow ahead of a crunch Third Reading vote next Friday. During today’s debate, MPs voted in favour of several changes that strengthen the safeguards in the… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Last-ditch talks are continuing in Northern Ireland as the final efforts to rescue powersharing drag on. Gordon Brown, who put back Cabinet by two days until Thursday to stay overnight in Belfast, met with the Taoiseach Brian Cowen this morning, following further meetings with the Sinn Fein and Democratic Unionist party (DUP)… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Northern Ireland’s leaders will meet with Gordon Brown and Irish taoiseach Brian Cowen in Belfast later as the final attempts to save the province’s powersharing arrangement get underway. It follows last-ditch talks between Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson and Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, which began earlier today. Negotiations over the… Read more »
