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Lord Birt, a former Director General of the BBC, has said the broadcaster should let atheists muscle in on Radio 4’s Thought for the Day. Critics say that a secular bias already dominates 177 minutes of the Today Programme which carries the three minute Thought for the Day slot. ...
A family from Cheshire have become the first in the UK to store tissue from their son’s umbilical cord which could be used to help cure the family of illnesses in the future. ...
A proposed London march of Muslim extremists calling for Sharia law to be implemented in the UK has been cancelled for security reasons. Islam4UK was planning to march from the Houses of Parliament to Trafalgar Square...
The Christian Institute Broadcast on 5 Nov 2009, The Christian Institute’s Mike Judge criticises the Government’s controversial plan to force children aged 15+ to attend state sex education classes regardless of their parent’s wishes.
Maine has become the latest US state to reject same-sex marriage after a “people’s veto” received support from a majority of voters. Proposals to legalise ‘gay marriage’ have now failed in all 31 states in which they have been put to a popular vote. The five...
US scientists claim to have created human eggs and sperm in a laboratory, sparking ethical concerns. Scientists in California used embryonic stem cells to create sperm which were reasonably mature and eggs at an early stage of development...
The Prime Minister, drug experts and parents affected by cannabis have all come out in support of the Government’s decision to sack one of its drug advisors. ...
The director of an abortion clinic in Texas has quit her job after watching ultrasound footage of an abortion – and joined a pro-life group which protests outside the facility. Abby Johnson, 29, spent eight years working at the Planned Parenthood centre in Bryan, Texas, two of them as director. ...
The European Court of Human Rights has caused uproar in Italy by banning crucifixes from the country’s school classrooms. The Court ruled that the practice of hanging crucifixes in classrooms violated parents’ right to educate their children according to their own wishes. I...
The House of Lords last night rejected a final attempt to weaken the Government’s proposed new law to tackle sex trafficking. The Government wants to criminalise anyone paying for sex with a prostitute who is being exploited by someone else, whether or not he knows about her situation. ...
Women who have an abortion are at greater risk of suffering from anxiety and depression, according to a new study...
A scheme encouraging schoolgirls as young as 11 to request the morning-after pill by text message is to be expanded. After an initial trial among six secondary schools, Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) hopes to roll out the scheme across the county...
A gay MP is planning to stage the first civil partnership ceremony within the Westminster Palace estate...
In the wake of the sacking of drugs adviser David Nutt, a drug harm expert has spoken out in defence of current drugs law. Home Secretary Alan Johnson sacked Professor Nutt for “crossing the line” between offering advice and “campaigning against” Government decisions. His ac...
The Government’s chief drugs adviser has been sacked for “crossing the line” into political campaigning against drugs laws. The...
