A Christian couple who were told it was illegal to turn unmarried couples away from their guesthouse have launched a landmark legal case at the European Court of Human Rights.
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March 18th, 2014
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March 14th, 2014
The voice on the other end of the telephone was nervous and excited. A young mother had taken an enormous risk by contacting The Independent herself to thank us for our coverage earlier this year of the scandal of Britain’s lost girls – the female foetuses aborted because they were the “wrong” sex.
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March 13th, 2014
Traditional attitudes to issues such as sexuality are being shut out of debate by a new form of liberal “censoriousness” which only allows “inoffensive” opinions to be heard in public, Britain’s most senior judge has warned.
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March 10th, 2014
The traditional Christian wedding ceremony should have no legal status under a shake-up of marriage laws, the Justice Minister has said.
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March 8th, 2014
The legislation of assisted suicide has moved a significant step closer after the Government made clear that it would not stand in the way of a change in the law.
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March 8th, 2014
The attackers - believed to be from the Boko Haram group - destroyed the entire village of Mainok, about 50km (30 miles) west of the city of Maiduguri.
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March 8th, 2014
A mother who was told her unborn baby was dead by hospital staff has given birth to a baby girl after insisting medics performed a second scan.
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March 3rd, 2014
Men are to be banned from becoming Queen or Princess of Wales as part of an unprecedented effort to rewrite more than 700 years of law to prevent unintended consequences of gay marriage.
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March 3rd, 2014
The first three-parent babies could be born by 2015 after the government set out new draft regulations which will allow donor DNA from a 'second mother' to be implanted into a defective egg.
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March 3rd, 2014
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is to remain opposed to any change in the law on assisted dying, it has been revealed today following one of the most comprehensive consultations of its members.