Shows such as Blue Peter and Newsround would be impossible under government plans to ban children under 14 from appearing in factual television programmes, broadcasters warned.
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September 12th, 2009
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September 12th, 2009
People with strong religious views could be banned from looking after children or charity work under the new vetting scheme because of malicious allegations made against them, it is feared.
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September 12th, 2009
Families are being wrongly burdened with 'agonising' life or death decisions over whether to resuscitate their loved ones, a leading expert has warned.
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September 11th, 2009
Gordon Brown last night issued a posthumous apology to Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing for the 'appalling' way he was punished for being homosexual.
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September 11th, 2009
Britain's most senior judge said last night he felt 'enormous sympathy' for those with terminal illnesses who want to end their lives by assisted suicide.
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September 11th, 2009
If the Supreme Court is about to start ruling on law, or Parliament is to start legislating, solely on the basis of where some soft idea of our 'sympathies' lie, then we really have moved from the rule of law to a post-modern notion of 'doing what feels right'. And that is no premise for a moral, civilised society.
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September 11th, 2009
Lord Falconer has suggested that the Archbishop of Canterbury?s stance on assisted suicide lacks Christian compassion.
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September 11th, 2009
This week, the Office of National Statistics published a list of the most popular boys' names in Britain: Jack, Oliver, Thomas, Harry, Joshua, Alfie, Charlie, Daniel. They reflect a cultural tradition as old as the nation's history, and would provoke approving nods from Jack the Ripper, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Becket and Harry Hotspur. There is just one small problem: the list is deceitful.
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September 11th, 2009
What happens when there's a clash between holy motivations and homosexual machinations in Hollywood?
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September 11th, 2009
Pastor Ade Omooba was speaking at a service of remembrance in London today for victims of the brutal Islamic sect Boko Haram.