British Isles
Thursday, 02 May 2013 19:33
Gift Aid warning to charities
Charities are being urged to ensure they are clued up about changes to claiming Gift Aid. A new system went live on Monday replacing paper claims forms with an online service requiring charities to connect their…
Thursday, 25 April 2013 20:48
Church of England’s £8bn assault on 'culture of greed' in City bonuses
The Church of England has launched a major offensive against bonus culture in the City pledging to use its own multi-billion investments to attempt to block what it sees as excessive payouts. In an overhaul of…
Thursday, 25 April 2013 20:45
Ban on teacher upheld in name of ‘British tolerance’
A Science teacher who was barred from teaching after expressing his beliefs on sexual ethics in the classroom has lost his case in the High Court. Robert Haye (43) was dismissed from Deptford Green School after…
Thursday, 25 April 2013 20:42
Abortion on the basis of gender
Birth statistics in the UK show that abortions on the basis of gender could be taking place in some communities. The findings were made after Government officials analysed the boy-girl ratios of births between 2007 and…
Thursday, 25 April 2013 20:39
Sinn Fein backs the ‘Turn off the Red Light Campaign’
CARE in Northern Ireland was very pleased to see Sinn Fein overwhelmingly back a campaign to make buying sex a criminal offence at its Ard Fheis (Party Conference) on Saturday evening. Sinn Fein members voted to…
Thursday, 25 April 2013 20:36
Anglicans gather to plan new partnerships with health services
Nearly 200 church leaders and medics gathered in Birmingham, England, this week to plan new initiatives in health care. Against the backdrop of rising chronic illness in the UK, churches and Christian general medical practitioners (GPs)…