Record numbers of Britons ended their lives in Swiss 'suicide clinics' last year as the campaign to decriminalise assisted dying gained ground.
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February 22nd, 2010
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February 22nd, 2010
The electorate may be moving in mysterious ways, suggests George Pitcher.
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February 22nd, 2010
The Ministry of Defence is contesting a plan to build a mosque within a few hundred yards of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.
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February 22nd, 2010
New research published yesterday by theology think tank Theos indicates voters with a religious faith could determine the outcome of the general election.
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February 22nd, 2010
Democrats political candidate Jeanie Walker says anti-abortion posters put up around Adelaide by an independent candidate are offensive.
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February 22nd, 2010
BBC broadcaster Ray Gosling has admitted he's told police the name of the terminally-ill lover he sensationally confessed to killing during a TV documentary.
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February 22nd, 2010
When Inspector Roger Bartlett realised his patch had one of the poorest crime detection rates in the area, he decided he needed help.
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February 22nd, 2010
A leading Muslim advocacy group is pushing government officials to call the suicide plane crash in Texas 'an act of terror', saying that if a Muslim had been flying the plane there would be no hesitancy to call it terrorism.
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February 22nd, 2010
Of all the great moral questions of our age, none is more agonisingly difficult than the debate over legalising assisted suicide, with powerful arguments both for and against.
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February 22nd, 2010
The House of Commons and the House of Lords should be scrapped as part of a new written constitution for the UK, according to a leading constitutional lawyer.