Gordon Brown has lost a of trial of strength with Ruth Kelly and is allowing her to miss a crucial vote to relax embryo research next week, The Times has learnt.
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July 1st, 2008
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July 1st, 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury has rounded on rebel Anglicans seeking to bypass his authority over issues such as homosexuality and women priests.
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July 1st, 2008
Ministers have been accused of undermining faith schools in a new report from the rightwing thinktank, the Centre for Policy Studies.
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July 1st, 2008
Ruth Kelly has won her fight with Gordon Brown to miss a crucial vote allowing the creation of animal-human hybrid embryos.
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July 1st, 2008
Scotland?s First Minister says he wants to find a way to save the country?s Roman Catholic adoption agencies from being forced to close because of homosexual discrimination laws.
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July 1st, 2008
The House of Lords has approved moves to lower the age of consent in Northern Ireland to 16, in spite of widespread opposition.
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July 1st, 2008
The parents of a terminally ill girl face a battle with the NHS to keep their six-year-old daughter alive.
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June 30th, 2008
A man who tried to carry out a suicide pact with his wife after she was taken into care with dementia has been spared jail by a judge at the Old Bailey.
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June 29th, 2008
The government is to allow organs to be taken from people before they are officially brain dead in an effort to tackle the shortage of transplant donors.
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June 25th, 2008
The western world is losing its Christian values at a time when it needs them most, a leading bishop in the Church of England has warned.