Controversial data-snooping laws rushed through at the end of the last parliament will have to be rewritten after two MPs and other campaigners won a High Court ruling that they are unlawful.
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July 17th, 2015
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July 16th, 2015Two daughters were forced to cancel a fundraising evening to raise money for their mother to travel to Dignitas after police warned they could be prosecuted.
Sisters Tara O'Reilly and Rose Baker scrapped the party after officers warned they could be charged with assisting a suicide. -
July 16th, 2015
Rugby World Cup winner Jason Robinson has spoken about how finding his faith saved his life.
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July 16th, 2015A right-to-die case brought by a paralysed former builder and locked-in syndrome sufferer Tony Nicklinson's widow was today rejected by the European Court of Human Rights.
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July 16th, 2015The education secretary has rejected calls to make PSHE - personal, social, health and economic education - compulsory in state schools in England.
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July 16th, 2015Two out of three children deemed to be in poverty are living with parents who work, a report on living standards has said.
Although the levels of absolute child poverty were unchanged between 2009 and 2014, the proportion living in a working family rose. -
July 16th, 2015
A medical breakthrough could end the need for so-called three-person IVF after scientists found a possible cure for a range of genetic diseases.
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July 16th, 2015
Religious freedom should mean the right to challenge beliefs as well as the right to worship.
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July 15th, 2015
A United Nations civil and political rights treaty declaring that “every human being has the inherent right to life” was on the table yesterday in Geneva for the purpose of discussing a possible interpretation that would allow signatory countries to make exceptions for abortion, euthanasia, and suicide. The 1960s treaty, affirmed by 74 countries and 168 parties, was created in direct response to Nazi Germany atrocities.
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July 15th, 2015
Fewer babies are being born as a result of the Government’s austerity drive putting women off from having children, suggests a new report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).