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Edinburgh City Council chiefs have been urged to 'join the 21st Century' after it emerged the local authority 'takes an anti-abortion stance' by blocking employees, school children and anyone using council IT equipment from accessing information on abortion.
The private member's bill is seeking to repeal a specific provision within the region's abortion regulations that allows terminations up to birth in cases of serious non-fatal disabilities.
A human rights barrister has said couples were being offered advice suggesting 'any number of people' can attend celebrations if they have a 'prayer element'.
The Charity Commission has issued an official warning to the trustees of a Jewish Orthodox charity in Salford over 49 undocumented loans totalling almost £2 million.
The campus will join both Neilston Primary and St Thomas' Primary on one site. Both schools will, however, have separate headteachers and parent-teacher councils.
Offensive dinner table comments made in private will not be classed as hate crimes, with law reform chiefs abandoning plans to extend the offence into homes.
A Hamas-run Islamic 'court' in the Gaza Strip has ruled that women require the permission of a male guardian to travel, further restricting movement in and out of the territory that has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt since the militant group seized power.
Monsta X rapper I.M has been criticised after promotional images of the K-pop star wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with an Islamic phrase went viral. His agency Starship Entertainment has since issued an apology.
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