Girl Guides will no longer pledge their loyalty to God and country under radical changes revealed yesterday.
In the News
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June 19th, 2013
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June 19th, 2013
For decades, Brownies and Girl Guides have promised to “love my God,” and “serve the Queen and my country”. But now, in a triumph for secularists, the organisation has decided to drop references to the deity – and the nation – from the oath taken by members
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June 19th, 2013
THE traditional Girlguiding Promise, said by thousands of members for over a century, has been altered to omit a mention of vowing to love or serve God.
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June 19th, 2013
The father of the Abortion Act has spoken out to warn of the growing ‘problem’ of women having repeat terminations as an alternative to contraception.
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June 19th, 2013
The government has rejected Labour calls for specially-trained teachers to be brought in to educate children about the dangers of internet pornography.
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June 19th, 2013
Obviously I’ve never been a Girl Guide. Nor did I ever join the Scouts. I was briefly a member of the more junior Cubs — but got out as soon as I could.
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June 18th, 2013
In a world first, a healthy baby has been born using a "safer" method of the infertility treatment IVF.
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June 18th, 2013
A SENIOR MSP claims she has been subjected to personal attacks after declaring she will vote against legislation allowing same-sex marriage in Scotland.
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June 18th, 2013
The Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, will portray good fathers as the unsung heroes of modern Britain – having a direct positive effect on crime rates, school results and even the nation’s mental health.
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June 14th, 2013
In many opinions expressed about “medically-assisted dying” (aka euthanasia), the most-commonly quoted part of the Hippocratic Oath is “primum non nocere” (“first do no harm”).