All state school pupils in England are in future to receive lessons in sex, relationships, drug misuse, personal finance and first aid, the Government announced today.
In the News
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October 23rd, 2008
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October 23rd, 2008
A renowned British stem-cell expert is to leave the UK to pursue his research in France, claiming that there is insufficient support for his work here.
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October 22nd, 2008
The Crown Prosecution Service is considering, yet again, whether to prosecute and possibly imprison otherwise law-abiding Britons for helping their loved ones to die.
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October 22nd, 2008
This afternoon the human fertilisation and embryology bill is debated for the last time by MPs - and what might well have been the moment when abortion became easier and quicker is instead to be marked by what looks suspiciously like a cave-in to a small group of anti-abortion MPs from Northern Ireland.
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October 22nd, 2008
Warring Anglican bishops could be forced to confront each other in divorce-style "mediation" or conflict resolution, under proposals published today.
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October 21st, 2008
Bendy-buses with the slogan "There's probably no God" could soon be running on the streets of London.
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October 21st, 2008
Gordon Brown has temporarily killed off moves to liberalise the abortion laws after MPs hijacked his controversial new fertility bill.
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October 21st, 2008
An apparent dirty deal to keep abortion out of Northern Ireland has also led to the shelving of crucial reforms in Britain
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October 21st, 2008
Today's politicians - whose favourite summer reading was The God Delusion - have never been more fearful of faith
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October 21st, 2008
Gordon Brown will today move to stop MPs having their first vote on abortion for nearly two decades.