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High streets and shops should be banned from advertising Christmas until December 1 in a move to restore "meaning" to the Christian festival, David Blunkett has suggested.
Lord Blunkett, the former Labour Home Secretary, has called for Britain to "reappraise" the commercial build up to the Christmas season.
Families in the Highlands are understood to be considering legal action after discovering their private information was passed between public bodies.
Campaigners against the Scottish Government’s controversial Named Person policy said “significant numbers” from the north had contacted them.
The claim was made as the Information Commissioner told the Scottish Government to remove guidance on sharing information about children from its website in light of a court ruling on the policy.
Britain has become a nation of Christmas-only churchgoers, according to new figures showing a boom in attendance at festive services while Sunday congregations slump to an all-time low.
Official statistics from the Church of England show just over one per cent of the population of England now attends its services on a typical Sunday, a third of the level in the 1970s.
The UK’s National Sperm Bank (NSB) has stopped recruiting after taking on only seven donors in the last two years.
Set up in October 2014, the NSB said it was unable to recruit donors, particularly at NHS clinics across the country.
It is believed some men may have been deterred from becoming donors due to recent law changes, which mean all children conceived through sperm donation after 1 April 2005, have the right to know the identity of their father when they turn 18.
A male contraceptive jab has been shown to be almost as effective as the female pill in a trial that could pave the way for men and women being able to share equal responsibility for birth control.
In the study, 350 men were given injections of hormones that were shown to dramatically lower their sperm count by “switching off” the male reproductive system. The drugs caused some unpleasant side-effects, however, meaning that the trial had to be halted early.
Theresa May has abandoned David Cameron's plans to force schools to become academies and cleared the way for her own reforms including a new generation of grammars.
Justine Greening, the Education Secretary, confirmed on Thursday that the Government has scrapped legislation that would have forced schools in under-performing local authorities to become academies.
There's a warning that the persecution of Christians around the world is getting worse as International Freedom of Religion or Belief Day is marked.
The European Union's special envoy on the issue, Jan Figel, told Premier "it's getting worse because up to 75% of the world population" is not granted freedom of faith.
He said that most of the world's population was still oppressed when it came to religion: "Therefore, those who believe that humanity should prevail can, and should do, much more for freedom of religion."
A woman was reported to police in Northern Ireland and charged in connection with using abortion pills after she sought medical help, the BBC has learnt.
The purchase and use of abortion pills is illegal throughout the UK.
However, there is particular concern about their availability in Northern Ireland.
This is because a termination is only allowed where a woman's life or long-term health is put at serious risk.
PUPILS at a primary school were forced to chant "Allahu Akhbar" and “there is no God but Allah", an appalled father has claimed.
The father of the pupil at the girl's primary school in German ski resort Garmisch-Partenkirchen discovered that his daughter had been forced to learn the Islamic prayer when he discovered a handout she had been given.
The taoiseach has called for a national conversation on the “avalanche” of online pornography being consumed by children.
Enda Kenny was speaking at the launch of a new free helpline for victims of crime. During a discussion on the impact of sexual assault, Mr Kenny said he was concerned about the way online pornography had replaced lads’ mags.