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Jersey’s States Assembly today approved a proposal to change the law on assisted dying 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, which campaigns for a right to die for those with terminal or incurable illnesses, praised the debate… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation in Northern Ireland (BASC NI) has called for the Ministerial Directive that limits the number of firearms that a registered firearms dealer may hold, to be scrapped. BASC NI’s recommendation, outlined in a survey response to the Department of Justice (DoJ), is that the number of firearms a… Read more »
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School children will be expected to master their times tables by the time they are eight – a year earlier than now – as part of a government drive to improve basic skills. Following recommendations from Ofsted chief Jim Rose, ministers have also announced that phonics – where pupils use the sounds of letters to… Read more »
The government has today named the 50 schools hoping to become self-governing trusts when the controversial education bill comes into force. Seventeen schools have begun preparing to link up with local businesses, charities or universities to create a trust on their own, and a further 31 have applied to do so in partnership with another… Read more »
