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The UK is conspicuously absent from the list of signatories to a statement published by the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance (IRFBA) that highlights the persecution of the non-religious and calls for their protection. IRFBA is a network of 38 countries committed to advancing freedom of religion or belief around the world with the Prime… Read more »
Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary today announced the government’s climate change plans, including details on how these new measures will affect deer management in Scotland. The Scottish Government has stated they ‘will build on the current Cairngorms Deer Pilot to develop a national scheme which incentivises increased management and investment in the venison supply chain’. Peter… 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 »