British Isles

Gift Aid warning to charities

02 May 2013
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…

Church of England’s £8bn assault on 'culture of greed' in City bonuses

25 Apr 2013
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…

Ban on teacher upheld in name of ‘British tolerance’

25 Apr 2013
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…

Abortion on the basis of gender

25 Apr 2013
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…