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North Yorkshire Police’s decision to halt all firearm and shotgun certificate grants has been described by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), as “a clear breach of their statutory duty”. In correspondence with North Yorkshire MPs, BASC has asked that the force is scrutinised and that they resume… Read more »
Jersey’s States Assembly will meet today to discuss proposals from the Citizens’ Jury to change the law for adult islanders with terminal or incurable conditions who have a clear and settled wish to end their lives. Channel Islands Humanists, part of Humanists UK, campaigns to legalise assisted dying for both the terminally ill and incurably suffering. It has… Read more »
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Communities secretary Hazel Blears launched a scathing attack on the prime minister in a Sunday paper but insists Gordon Brown is still the man for the job. “Labour ministers have a collective responsibility for the government’s lamentable failure to get our message across,” she wrote in the paper. In the article for the Observer, Ms… Read more »
Former Liberal Democrats leader Paddy Ashdown has claimed key Labour party figures have signalled they would defect to the Liberal Democrats if the party becomes too left wing. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Lord Ashdown told the paper that Labour MPs were concerned by the party’s shift towards the left in the wake… Read more »
