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The Scottish government has been told to pay the legal costs of those who opposed its named-person scheme.
The estimated £250,000 bill run up by the No to Named Persons (NO2NP) campaign will be reimbursed after a UK Supreme Court ruling.
The campaign called the decision a "total and utter vindication" of its legal challenge.
The BBC will increase its coverage of more religions and could broadcast Friday prayers after complaints that it was too Christian, The Times has learnt.
Lord Hall of Birkenhead, director-general of the corporation, is inviting religious leaders to join discussions about plans for multi-faith coverage. He will also appoint a senior executive, who will sit on the board of governors, to draw up new programme ideas alongside broadcasts such as Songs of Praise and Thought for the Day.
A woman accused of poisoning a three-year-old boy used tens of thousands of pounds in legal aid to try to keep her alleged terror connections secret.
Taxpayer-funded lawyers argued that Scotland Yard should not gain access to woman's files after she repeatedly contaminated an intravenous tube which was being used to treat the child.
Jail bosses fear a race war could break out behind bars after hardened killers set up protection groups against Muslim convicts.
The Sunday People can reveal that governors have been given an urgent security warning about one new network called Death Before Dishonour.
The group – calling themselves DBD for short – have formed to protect themselves against what they claim is an increasing risk from Muslim inmates.
In 2013, then Prime Minister David Cameron said: “I want London to stand alongside Dubai and Kuala Lumpur as one of the great capitals of Islamic finance anywhere in the world."
His wish is fast coming true. Western financial institutions in the UK have welcomed Islamic finance with open arms. Today, more banks are compliant with Islamic finance in the UK than in any other Western country. The UK also tops the world’s league table as the largest provider of Islamic finance courses in the world, with offerings at around seventy educational institutions.
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
These words, attributed to Albert Einstein, should be tattooed on the inside of every evangelist’s eyelids. Simple is good. But there are simplifications that subtract and subvert. And our modern inclination to mute or sidestep the Trinity is one such “simplification.” It abandons the very gospel it seeks to proclaim.
Lambeth 1.10 is the authoritative teaching of the Anglican Communion on sexuality because it accurately articulates the biblical revelation about human sexuality. It is well known that The Episcopal Church, Anglican Church of Canada, and Scottish Episcopal Church have violated Lambeth 1.10 for over a decade. In recent years, the Church of England’s compliance with Lambeth 1.10 has been under scrutiny, and the release of the Pilling Report[1] and the process of “Shared Conversations” have only heightened concerns around the Communion, and within England itself[2].
Hundreds of people with rare diseases could miss out on vital treatments after the NHS was ordered to consider bankrolling a controversial HIV pill.
Toddlers with cystic fibrosis, deaf children and amputees may now be denied a range of new medical devices and breakthrough drugs.
NHS England has a budget of £25million a year for specialised new treatments and equipment for rare diseases.
New powers are needed to allow councils to intervene in illegal schools and protect vulnerable pupils, according to the man ministers have appointed to rethink local authorities’ role in education.
Alan Wood is not due to start his Department for Education review into the future of local government in education until the new year.
But in an exclusive interview with TES, he revealed that he was already of the opinion that radical changes were needed to safeguard pupils outside mainstream schools who could be learning in unsafe and unhygienic environments.
The comedian Russell Brand and his girlfriend Laura Gallacher have just had a baby. Mabel is less than a month old, but already her parents have big plans for the future.
The couple apparently want to bring up their child in a gender neutral fashion, meaning that they want wee Mabel to be free of the societal expectations that come with her ‘assigned’ birth sex.
During an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show before his daughter was born, Brand said: ‘We don’t know the gender. I may not even ever impose a gender upon it. Let the child grow up and be whatever the hell it is, never tell it there is such a concept.’