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A severely disabled baby who had been on a ventilator since he was 18 minutes old has died after a High Court judge decided that life-support treatment could be stopped, a lawyer has said.
Hospital bosses had asked for permission to stop providing life-support treatment to the three-and-a-half-month old boy. The baby's parents had objected.
The Sunday Times yesterday highlighted a service that took place on Saturday at St Agnes’ Church in North Reddish, Manchester. This was a service of "blessing" (as described on the church website) for the same-sex marriage of the now former vicar, Clive Larsen, one of the trustees of Changing Attitude.
One month on from the Brexit vote, and we’re doing fine. The fundamentals are unchanged: a strong economy, a cohesive society and, lest we forget, we haven’t actually left the EU yet. Despite this, some people still talk as though Britain detached itself from the Continent and sank into the ocean. They need to relax – open a beer and enjoy the sunshine. History suggests that ruptures in geopolitics can be the start of something beautiful.
Prosecutors will be urged to press for tougher sentences for perpetrators of hate crimes after a surge in reported incidents in the wake of the EU referendum.
A new fund will also be established for “protective security measures” at synagogues, mosques, churches and other places of worship. The steps will be outlined in the Government's new hate crime action plan, which will be published next week.
The UK government may re-consider its refusal to recognise ISIS atrocities against Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities as genocide.
The new foreign secretary Boris Johnson has said the UK would lead a campaign to bring the terror group to justice as he urged allies fighting Islamic State to do more to gather evidence of war crimes.
More than half a million nurses, teachers, childminders and other frontline public sector workers have been put through a mass counter-terrorism training programme to help them spot and report potential extremists in their workplaces.
The Home Office has confirmed that of the 550,000 now trained in the controversial Prevent strategy, at least 150,000 are public-facing NHS staff, such as doctors and nurses.
Four boys at a school in East Sussex, England wore skirts to school this week in protest after they were reprimanded for wearing shorts on a particularly hot summer day.
About 20 boys at Longhill High School in Rottingdean, East Sussex wore official school gym shorts instead of pants on Tuesday, the BBC reported. As a result, some were sent home and others excluded from classes.
It is an incongruous sight. In the school at the heart of the “Trojan Horse” controversy, excited pupils are mingling with soldiers in full army uniform.
At a tented outdoor kitchen, an irascible old warrior bawls instructions about knife safety as children wearing hygiene gloves bend over chopping boards to slice up strawberries, chatting away.
The Rt. Rev. Robert Paterson, Bishop of Sodor and Man, announced his resignation today, after what Manx Radio called a 'tumultuous decade for the Anglican Church on the Island.'
The smallest diocese in the Church of England saw its steepest numerical decline, with the highly unpopular bishop earning a reputation for incompetence, bullying and harassment during his eight years in office.
Today I want us to travel together into the past, to England in the late 1700’s. King George III is on the throne, though this is before the madness that would mark his final days. The Industrial Revolution is well underway and life is changing as people begin a great migration to the cities to pursue those new factory jobs. On the other side of the Atlantic the American colonies have recently declared their independence.