2008 News Archive

December 2008

• Christian care home loses funding over 'gay rights' (29 Dec 2008)
• Christmas message by Revd David Holloway (24 Dec 2008)
• Lillian Ladele ruling is overturned on appeal (19 Dec 2008)
• Married parents best for children admits minister (19 Dec 2008)
• Advantages to church and state split says Archbishop (19 Dec 2008)
• Church to debate reaching Muslims (18 Dec 2008)
• Ross told to cut back on crude comments (18 Dec 2008)
• Guidance for religious charities is published (17 Dec 2008)
• Unborns equal in human family, says Archbishop (17 Dec 2008)
• Two Scots plan to die at Swiss suicide clinic (17 Dec 2008)
• Liberalising doesn't work admit Dutch (17 Dec 2008)
• 'Rom-coms' ruin love lives, warns scientist (16 Dec 2008)
• Scots Government set to legalise oral sex for 13s (16 Dec 2008)
• Pope slams embryo research as immoral (16 Dec 2008)
• Mum told Christmas lights are offensive (16 Dec 2008)
• Teen pregnancy numbers are up (16 Dec 2008)
• Kids most want to ban divorce (16 Dec 2008)
• European ministers meet about discrimination law (15 Dec 2008)
• Polish women favour Britain for abortions (15 Dec 2008)
• Poll claims support for assisted suicide (15 Dec 2008)
• Worrying proposals for NI Bill of Rights (12 Dec 2008)
• Luxembourg Duke risks power over euthanasia (12 Dec 2008)
• Gay activist against ban on ad quoting the Bible (12 Dec 2008)
• Government stood up for marriage in Europe (12 Dec 2008)
• Charity regulator challenged for blocking adoption lifeline (12 Dec 2008)
• Viewers complain over morning sex ed show (12 Dec 2008)
• Tribunal hears appeal in Lillian Ladele case (11 Dec 2008)
• Legal challenge lost over hybrid embryos (11 Dec 2008)
• BBC shows one-sided euthanasia programme (11 Dec 2008)
• Assisted suicide screened by Sky (11 Dec 2008)
• Organised crime forces Amsterdam to clean up (11 Dec 2008)
• MSP wants suicide 'rights' for children (11 Dec 2008)
• Helping addicts get off drugs will save millions (10 Dec 2008)
• Chemists to give pill to teens without GP visit (10 Dec 2008)
• Rugby player's parents not charged for suicide (10 Dec 2008)
• Majority say Jesus' birth is personally significant (09 Dec 2008)
• Lads' mags should have adult ratings (09 Dec 2008)
• Equalities office under fire over expenditure (09 Dec 2008)
• Cardinal says religion is not "private eccentricity" (09 Dec 2008)
• PC dictionary for kids drops Christian words (08 Dec 2008)
• Ministers in secrecy row over late abortion figures (08 Dec 2008)
• Faith schools told to 'stop choosing religious pupils' (05 Dec 2008)
• Government ban on 'buy one get one free' booze (05 Dec 2008)
• Surveys will question on sexual preference (05 Dec 2008)
• Employers recoil from planned equality laws (05 Dec 2008)
• Assisted suicide law on Government's agenda (05 Dec 2008)
• Christmas play moved in favour of Muslim festival (05 Dec 2008)
• Benefits of religious upbringing overlooked (04 Dec 2008)
• Equality regulator joins push for more gay MPs (04 Dec 2008)
• Doctor says need for control often drives suicide requests (04 Dec 2008)
• Conjoined twins: only one survives surgery (04 Dec 2008)
• The Queen's Speech: more equality laws (03 Dec 2008)
• Abortionist: life only matters if it's wanted (03 Dec 2008)
• Police probe Ulster MP's gay comments (03 Dec 2008)
• Watchdog says Bible quotes are indecent (03 Dec 2008)
• Stop the pressure for early sex, say Guides (03 Dec 2008)
• Bratz dolls and media 'sexualise young girls' (03 Dec 2008)
• RC Bishop wants multi- faith facilities in schools (03 Dec 2008)
• Govt TV ad: use condom for drunken festive sex (02 Dec 2008)
• Parents furious as crude film advertised on buses (02 Dec 2008)
• RC adoption head quits over 'gay rights' laws (02 Dec 2008)
• Mental health risk linked to abortion (02 Dec 2008)
• European regulators refuse patent for embryo invention (02 Dec 2008)
• Brits come top in casual sex league (02 Dec 2008)

November 2008

• Abortion numbers look likely to set new record (28 Nov 2008)
• New stem cell law could clash with human rights (28 Nov 2008)
• Elderly Christian woman surrounded by gay mob (28 Nov 2008)
• Siamese twins born after parents refused abortion (28 Nov 2008)
• Emergency birth control given out for Christmas (28 Nov 2008)
• Mothers dismayed at high heels for babies (28 Nov 2008)
• Atheist lobby allocated £35,000 public money (27 Nov 2008)
• Family break-up is leading to social crisis, MP warns (27 Nov 2008)
• Minister: sex ed more important than maths (27 Nov 2008)
• Groups in court bid for fair play in embryology (27 Nov 2008)
• Dying are let down by care, watchdog says (27 Nov 2008)
• Lap-dancing not about sex, club owners claim (26 Nov 2008)
• Parliament approves tighter cannabis law (26 Nov 2008)
• Schoolgirls to be shown 'abortion rights' video (26 Nov 2008)
• Children are wired for belief, says academic (26 Nov 2008)
• 'Our best decision was to keep our Down's son' (26 Nov 2008)
• Advent is for waiting, not shopping, says Archbishop (26 Nov 2008)
• Lords consider plan for tougher cannabis laws (25 Nov 2008)
• Help women think before aborting, says journalist (25 Nov 2008)
• Promoting marriage 'will curb teenage pregnancy' (25 Nov 2008)
• Equality watchdog funds atheist 'rights' seminar (25 Nov 2008)
• More Down's babies as parents refuse abortion (24 Nov 2008)
• Peers: 'care' charter is masked euthanasia bid (20 Nov 2008)
• MSP plans better care for the dying (20 Nov 2008)
• Adult stem cells promise to 'revolutionise' surgery (20 Nov 2008)
• Bhs sells sex items next to kids' toys (19 Nov 2008)
• Home Secretary declares sex industry clampdown (19 Nov 2008)
• A quarter of children bullied for their faith (18 Nov 2008)
• Salmond fails to deliver on promised drugs policy (18 Nov 2008)
• New 'voice' for the elderly reveals euthanasia beliefs (18 Nov 2008)
• Harman opposed over plan to boost gay MPs (18 Nov 2008)
• Long-term birth control pushed to teenage girls (17 Nov 2008)
• Father arrested for smacking son (17 Nov 2008)
• Pastor fined for views but 'kill Christian' band let off (17 Nov 2008)
• Charles agrees to be 'Defender of faith' (14 Nov 2008)
• Organ advisers say no to 'presumed consent' plan (14 Nov 2008)
• Smacking couple banned from adoption, yet again (14 Nov 2008)
• Ireland moves to block abortion ban challenge (14 Nov 2008)
• Government backs off NI abortion law change (14 Nov 2008)
• Child abuse stats are blind on family type (14 Nov 2008)
• Poll shows 40 per cent oppose gay adoption (13 Nov 2008)
• 'Broken families lie at heart of baby tragedy' (13 Nov 2008)
• Students ban blood ads on 'gay rights' grounds (12 Nov 2008)
• Minister pledges time to debate assisted suicide (12 Nov 2008)
• Plan to send 'proud to be gay' DVD to every school (12 Nov 2008)
• School play tells 11s to be proud to be gay (11 Nov 2008)
• 'Consult 8-year-olds on underage sex law' (11 Nov 2008)
• New stem cell discovery could cure heart defects (11 Nov 2008)
• Hospital accepts girl's view on risky surgery (11 Nov 2008)
• PC council won't 'sing from same hymn sheet' (10 Nov 2008)
• All-day drinking laws consume police time (10 Nov 2008)
• Children left in care by family breakdown (07 Nov 2008)
• Gay bishop in private meetings with Obama (07 Nov 2008)
• Gay militants arrested over marriage protest (07 Nov 2008)
• Christians picked on by homosexual group (07 Nov 2008)
• UK tops EU table for drug abuse (07 Nov 2008)
• Assisted suicide distracts from care, says professor (07 Nov 2008)
• Boys think it is fine to pressure girls into sex (07 Nov 2008)
• NZ party pledges probe of anti-smacking laws (07 Nov 2008)
• Lap-dancers protest outside number 10 (06 Nov 2008)
• Lillian Ladele appeal set for 10 December (06 Nov 2008)
• Assisted suicide could harm many, says Peer (06 Nov 2008)
• Court backs smacking parents' adoption bid (05 Nov 2008)
• Gay blood ban will stay, says transfusion service (05 Nov 2008)
• Girls coaxed into STI jab by TV star (05 Nov 2008)
• Little girl at centre of right-to-life case dies (05 Nov 2008)
• Arizona and Florida ban 'gay marriage' (05 Nov 2008)
• New life from dead mouse (05 Nov 2008)
• Sturgeon won't back legal assisted suicide (04 Nov 2008)
• Teen pregnancy linked to sexual content on TV (04 Nov 2008)
• London rally to call for stricter lap-dancing law (03 Nov 2008)
• Oxford unimpressed with Christmas ban (03 Nov 2008)

October 2008

• BBC acts over Brand- Ross but not Springer (31 Oct 2008)
• Government has been 'neglecting marriage' (31 Oct 2008)
• MSPs examine gay blood ban (31 Oct 2008)
• Is this a wake up call for the BBC? (30 Oct 2008)
• Embryology Bill clears Parliament (30 Oct 2008)
• Opportunity seized by assisted suicide Peer (30 Oct 2008)
• Sydney ditches all-day drinking (30 Oct 2008)
• Brand quits BBC, Ross suspended (29 Oct 2008)
• Euthanasia law challenge fails (29 Oct 2008)
• Brits going overseas for 'designer babies' (29 Oct 2008)
• Embryo horrors 'last seen under Nazis', says Cardinal (29 Oct 2008)
• Embryos Bill in the Lords today (29 Oct 2008)
• BBC slammed over Brand-Ross 'prank' (28 Oct 2008)
• Ofsted 'cover up' over sex education survey (28 Oct 2008)
• Government 'allows' Sharia family courts (28 Oct 2008)
• A third of young girls worry about their body (28 Oct 2008)
• Google's gambling ads bring risk, says expert (28 Oct 2008)
• Christian groups asked to grow work in prisons (28 Oct 2008)
• Euthanasia law 'must only be changed by parliament' (27 Oct 2008)
• Christian therapist sacked over beliefs (27 Oct 2008)
• Scientist quits over UK's embryo bias (24 Oct 2008)
• New embryo test could screen for 'anything' (24 Oct 2008)
• London vicar regrets taking gay 'wedding' (24 Oct 2008)
• Sex ed for five-year-olds to be made compulsory (23 Oct 2008)
• Three in four say leave sex education to parents (23 Oct 2008)
• Plans to liberalise abortion laws fail (22 Oct 2008)
• 'Gay rights' party held at number 10 (22 Oct 2008)
• Broken homes leave children miserable (22 Oct 2008)
• Times writer blasts scouts condom plan (21 Oct 2008)
• Charity regulator denies adoption agency lifeline (21 Oct 2008)
• Doctor says rugby player needed help, not suicide (20 Oct 2008)
• Scout leaders told: 'hand out condoms' (20 Oct 2008)
• 1 in 20 young people has gambling problem (20 Oct 2008)
• Minister wants mandatory sex lessons for under-11s (18 Oct 2008)
• Call for easier abortion law (17 Oct 2008)
• Police: turn a blind eye to sex in public (17 Oct 2008)
• Cannabis law blasted as drugs killer jailed (17 Oct 2008)
• Kirk warns Scots MPs over embryology Bill (17 Oct 2008)
• 1 in 4 children suffer as cohabiting couples split (17 Oct 2008)
• Google allows gambling ads (16 Oct 2008)
• Porn activists plan protest in London (16 Oct 2008)
• Gambling helpline calls up 25 per cent (16 Oct 2008)
• BBC boss: yes, we are biased between faiths (15 Oct 2008)
• Charity snubs bishop in gay adoption row (15 Oct 2008)
• Towns 'like Wild West' with 24-hour drinking (15 Oct 2008)
• University bars 'Doctor Death' (15 Oct 2008)
• Gospels slated on BBC's Mastermind (14 Oct 2008)
• Doctor says euthanasia would kill patient trust (14 Oct 2008)
• MP attacks sex education for primary school pupils (14 Oct 2008)
• Public happy with faith schools, survey shows (14 Oct 2008)
• No cannabis arrest until third offence (14 Oct 2008)
• Ministers 'save face' over drinking laws (13 Oct 2008)
• John Humphrys' biased debate over euthanasia (10 Oct 2008)
• BBC's EastEnders mocks 'Christian' (10 Oct 2008)
• Bishop acts to defend adoption agency fund (10 Oct 2008)
• Schools watchdog to grade sex education (10 Oct 2008)
• Marriage movie is box office smash (10 Oct 2008)
• Harman challenged on NI abortion bid (09 Oct 2008)
• Scientist hails ethical stem cell discovery (09 Oct 2008)
• Former head scolds MPs over smacking (09 Oct 2008)
• 'Mums who smack aren't criminals', says minister (09 Oct 2008)
• Bid to ban smacking fails in the Commons (08 Oct 2008)
• 'Doctor Death' suicide class pulled by council (08 Oct 2008)
• Christians compare abortion to slavery (08 Oct 2008)
• New Down's test could mean more abortions (08 Oct 2008)
• Methadone queues block prison places (08 Oct 2008)
• Anti-smacking lobby launches ban attempt (07 Oct 2008)
• Playboy products pulled after parent's complaint (06 Oct 2008)
• Politics puts religion in the margins, says Kelly (06 Oct 2008)
• Tiny number leave NHS drug treatment 'clean' (03 Oct 2008)
• Children's watchdog wants weaker age of consent law (03 Oct 2008)
• 'Media elite' hostile to faith, composer warns (02 Oct 2008)
• Scotland to boost end-of-life care (02 Oct 2008)
• Gay press criticised for Ladele coverage (02 Oct 2008)
• Children do better with fathers around (01 Oct 2008)
• Teen sex show on weekday mornings (01 Oct 2008)
• Student row over unisex toilets for transsexuals (01 Oct 2008)

September 2008

• Top teacher warns of value gap in schools (30 Sep 2008)
• Conservatives pledge support for 'marriage' (30 Sep 2008)
• Euthanasia law faces challenge (29 Sep 2008)
• Christian actor: I'll only kiss my wife (29 Sep 2008)
• Google comes out for 'gay marriage' (27 Sep 2008)
• Don't change ecstasy law, say police chiefs (26 Sep 2008)
• Sleeper ministers on 'gay rights' watch (25 Sep 2008)
• Children suffering as more parents cohabit (24 Sep 2008)
• Pro-life minister leaves Cabinet (24 Sep 2008)
• Vicar holds lesbian 'blessing' ceremony (24 Sep 2008)
• Pro-life groups will defend Irish unborn (23 Sep 2008)
• New laws to clamp down on sex trade (22 Sep 2008)
• Teen sex doubles risk of depression (22 Sep 2008)
• RC Church forced to drop adoption work in Wales (19 Sep 2008)
• Baroness Warnock says elderly have 'duty to die' (19 Sep 2008)
• Sex education 'comic' aimed at six-year-olds (18 Sep 2008)
• Global coverage of Google case (18 Sep 2008)
• Drugs advisors want ecstasy downgraded (18 Sep 2008)
• Czech Senate blasts EU equality Directive (18 Sep 2008)
• Google settlement in abortion ad case (17 Sep 2008)
• Muslim MP calls for religion 'equality duty' (16 Sep 2008)
• Yorkshire college cancels Christmas (16 Sep 2008)
• Teach gay sex to primary children, researchers say (16 Sep 2008)
• Council backs down over Christian tracts (15 Sep 2008)
• Lap-dance discount in Tory conference pack (15 Sep 2008)
• Christian bestseller blacklisted by BBC (15 Sep 2008)
• 'Equality police' to target faith groups (12 Sep 2008)
• Royal Mail plans to honour Marie Stopes (12 Sep 2008)
• Call for legal abortion in NI in spite of opposition (12 Sep 2008)
• Christians face funding bias, says Archbishop (11 Sep 2008)
• BBC 'big bang day' criticised (11 Sep 2008)
• GMC rejects complaint against pro-life doctor (11 Sep 2008)
• Ethical stem cell blood bank opens (11 Sep 2008)
• Cameron's candidates want abortion reform (10 Sep 2008)
• Soaps lobbied for liberal storylines (09 Sep 2008)
• Unions say Christian should be fired from equality board (09 Sep 2008)
• Australian Christians sued by homosexuals (09 Sep 2008)
• Christians campaign to ban sex trade ads (09 Sep 2008)
• Pay-out for woman in first cohabitation case (08 Sep 2008)
• Sexual health clinics to open in Scottish schools (08 Sep 2008)
• Media is anti-Christian, says Sky News reporter (05 Sep 2008)
• Brown backs ban on paying for prostitutes (05 Sep 2008)
• Sex for £15 in London brothels (05 Sep 2008)
• Public support for ban on buying sex (04 Sep 2008)
• Make charities promote 'gay rights', say unions (03 Sep 2008)
• Wales could get first gay bishop (02 Sep 2008)
• Faith schools under attack (01 Sep 2008)

August 2008

• Council backs Ramadan but won't do Christmas (29 Aug 2008)
• Deaths from 'celebrity' drugs at all-time high (29 Aug 2008)
• Further advances in non-embryo research (28 Aug 2008)
• Police facing court over 'Muslim no-go' incident (28 Aug 2008)
• Enforce sex lessons for four-year-olds, say MPs (27 Aug 2008)
• Teen health 'timebomb' of drugs, drink and sex (26 Aug 2008)
• Pro-life group accuses paper of abortion bias (21 Aug 2008)
• Methadone deaths overtake heroin in region of Scotland (20 Aug 2008)
• Drinking kills 15,000 a year (18 Aug 2008)
• Cameron backs abortion on grounds of disability (18 Aug 2008)
• More youths in hospital as hard drug prices fall (15 Aug 2008)
• Growing opposition to weak lap-dancing laws (15 Aug 2008)
• Explicit sex education for pupils with special needs (15 Aug 2008)
• Petition attacking Iris Robinson MP rejected (14 Aug 2008)
• Male youths need role models, says minister (14 Aug 2008)
• 24-hour drinking laws cause police problems (13 Aug 2008)
• Williams: gay unions can be like marriage (07 Aug 2008)
• Chemists to sell STI pill over the counter (06 Aug 2008)
• We should have supported gay adoption, says top Tory (05 Aug 2008)
• Scots are 'ashamed' of drinking culture (05 Aug 2008)
• New effort to collect cord blood stem cells (04 Aug 2008)

July 2008

• Schools asked to step in as families break down (31 Jul 2008)
• European challenge to Ireland's abortion ban (30 Jul 2008)
• EU laws mean pubs can keep their happy hours (29 Jul 2008)
• Durham locals stop lap-dancing licence (29 Jul 2008)
• Compel sex lessons at 11, says Government report (29 Jul 2008)
• Concern as GMC fails to strike off suicide doctor (28 Jul 2008)
• Labour loses Glasgow East to pro-life SNP candidate (25 Jul 2008)
• Tory pledge to help locals oppose lap-dancing clubs (24 Jul 2008)
• NI parties oppose abortion proposal (24 Jul 2008)
• Talk about sex at age 11, Government tells parents (24 Jul 2008)
• Bid to allow abortion in Northern Ireland (23 Jul 2008)
• Ofsted: fatherless boys are struggling in school (23 Jul 2008)
• Alcohol problems worse than feared (22 Jul 2008)
• Golden Compass sequels in doubt (22 Jul 2008)
• State to bankroll Muslim thinkers (18 Jul 2008)
• Drugs tried by one in four youngsters (18 Jul 2008)
• Sex education plans 'sideline' parents (17 Jul 2008)
• Blears: faith groups can't do social work if they evangelise (16 Jul 2008)
• Promiscuity endangers the young, say experts (16 Jul 2008)
• Islington to appeal registrar judgment (15 Jul 2008)
• Teen girls suffer stress of being too adult, too soon (15 Jul 2008)
• Bishop: embryos Bill could hurt Labour in by-election (15 Jul 2008)
• Lillian Ladele case hits the headlines (11 Jul 2008)
• Christian registrar wins discrimination case (10 Jul 2008)
• Final embryos votes delayed until autumn (10 Jul 2008)
• Doctors vote against 'pro-life register' (10 Jul 2008)
• 'Acceptable' divorce still hurts children (09 Jul 2008)
• Groups say four-year-olds should have sex education (08 Jul 2008)
• Pro-life doctor cleared by GMC (08 Jul 2008)
• Boys given detention for refusing Muslim prayer (07 Jul 2008)
• Top judge backs Sharia law 'role' (04 Jul 2008)
• 'Skunk' cannabis link to psychosis (03 Jul 2008)
• Sexual Orientation back in draft EU discrimination law (02 Jul 2008)
• Police apologise for puppy that 'could offend Muslims' (02 Jul 2008)
• Gangs replace family life, says police chief (02 Jul 2008)
• Scientists given licence for human-pig embryos (01 Jul 2008)
• 24-hour drinking fails to deliver café culture (01 Jul 2008)
• Lords vote to lower NI age of consent (01 Jul 2008)
• Faith schools attacked to 'impress secular lobby' (01 Jul 2008)
• Salmond seeks lifeline for RC adoption groups (01 Jul 2008)

June 2008

• Force public bodies to promote 'gay rights' (27 Jun 2008)
• Less than half of all adults are married (27 Jun 2008)
• Morning-after pill free at Scottish pharmacies (26 Jun 2008)
• C of E raises concerns over new charity rules (25 Jun 2008)
• Society needs braver church, says Bishop (25 Jun 2008)
• Civil partnership numbers plunge (25 Jun 2008)
• Cannabis blamed for rise in mental cases (24 Jun 2008)
• Fears for girls as pill is sold online (24 Jun 2008)
• Ad featuring two men kissing axed by Heinz (24 Jun 2008)
• Fathers Day cards banned at schools (23 Jun 2008)
• One in three secondary schools have sex clinic (23 Jun 2008)
• Bishops snub Anglican summit over gay clergy (23 Jun 2008)
• Enforce sex lessons from the age of five (20 Jun 2008)
• Abortion at all-time high and rates soar for teens (19 Jun 2008)
• TV star's gay split may be test case (19 Jun 2008)
• Lap dancing laws to get toughened (19 Jun 2008)
• Brit teens among worst for drink, drugs and sex (18 Jun 2008)
• NI adoption laws breach human rights, say Lords (18 Jun 2008)
• Archbishops concerned by rogue gay 'wedding' (18 Jun 2008)
• NHS offers chlamydia screening on Facebook (17 Jun 2008)
• Open sex clinics in schools, report says (16 Jun 2008)
• Scots ban off-licence sales to under-21s (16 Jun 2008)
• 'Gay wedding' in Anglican church (16 Jun 2008)
• Bill loophole could allow full cloning (16 Jun 2008)
• Court decision sparks euthanasia concern (13 Jun 2008)
• Teenage girl dies after taking abortion pills (13 Jun 2008)
• Magazine in court for Steyn article on Islam (13 Jun 2008)
• Embryo tests in IVF can ruin pregnancy chances (13 Jun 2008)
• Ex-gay defends doctor in Iris Robinson storm (12 Jun 2008)
• Man wakes as medics prepare to take organs (11 Jun 2008)
• MP claims "witch hunt" to silence Christians (10 Jun 2008)
• Make cannabis legal, says Scots think-tank (10 Jun 2008)
• Canadian pastor fined and gagged over gay comments (10 Jun 2008)
• Generation of divorce leaves old men lonely (10 Jun 2008)
• C of E: Government is sidelining Christianity (09 Jun 2008)
• MP reported to police over 'gay' comments (09 Jun 2008)
• RC adoption agency to fight 'gay rights' laws (09 Jun 2008)
• Video: Church workers talk about 'no go' area (06 Jun 2008)
• Three-parent families 'just three years away' (06 Jun 2008)
• Tory hopefuls favour lower abortion limit (06 Jun 2008)
• Stem cell advance avoids embryo problem (05 Jun 2008)
• Commons vote ignores public opinion on NI age of consent (05 Jun 2008)
• IPCC to probe 'Muslim no-go area' allegation (04 Jun 2008)
• New measures against teen binge drinking target parents (02 Jun 2008)
• Police: "you can't preach here, this is a Muslim area" (01 Jun 2008)

May 2008

• Stonewall wants tax hit for Earl over civil partnerships (30 May 2008)
• Scots plan to drop 'harm reduction' drugs policy (29 May 2008)
• Radical Islam set to fill values gap, says Bishop (28 May 2008)
• Men being erased from family life, warns MP (28 May 2008)
• Christian registrars fear for their jobs, tribunal is told (22 May 2008)
• Fathers not needed, say MPs, and abortion law stays as it is (21 May 2008)
• Doctors don't want to perform late abortions (21 May 2008)
• MEPs demand re-think on equality Directive (20 May 2008)
• MPs vote on embryos Bill: abortion and fatherhood (20 May 2008)
• Christian registrar seeks conscience exemption (19 May 2008)
• MPs vote on animal-human embryos and saviour siblings (19 May 2008)
• Make abortion law stricter, say women (16 May 2008)
• Public want abortion weeks cut in line with rest of Europe (15 May 2008)
• Conservative spokesman backs abortion on demand (13 May 2008)
• Government criticised for restricting embryos votes (13 May 2008)
• Let 13 year-olds have sex, says Children's Commissioner (12 May 2008)
• Free speech victory over 'homosexual hatred' law (08 May 2008)
• Cannabis will be restored to class B, says Home Secretary (07 May 2008)
• MPs remove free speech clause from 'gay hate' law (07 May 2008)
• MPs lead push to save 3,000 babies a year from abortion (06 May 2008)
• MPs to vote on free speech clause to 'gay hatred' law (02 May 2008)
• Police blame drink laws for surge in women arrests (02 May 2008)

April 2008

• Creator of abortion law wants 'abortion on request' (30 Apr 2008)
• Public opinion ignored as NI age of consent lowered to 16 (30 Apr 2008)
• Bradford police tell threatened convert: "stop being a crusader" (30 Apr 2008)
• Elderly sisters told they can't have same tax rights as gays (29 Apr 2008)
• More twelve-year-olds are having abortions (29 Apr 2008)
• Majority of MLAs oppose lower age of consent in NI (29 Apr 2008)
• Brown expected to overrule advisors over cannabis law (28 Apr 2008)
• EU drops 'sexual orientation' from discrimination directive (25 Apr 2008)
• RC dioceses scrap adoption work over 'gay rights' laws (25 Apr 2008)
• Surge in mental illness linked to relaxation of cannabis laws (25 Apr 2008)
• Cohabiting couple treated as married by appeal court (25 Apr 2008)
• Gay writer applauds free speech victory (24 Apr 2008)
• Family breakdown harms children's mental health (24 Apr 2008)
• 'Irresponsible' gambling ads pulled by watchdog (23 Apr 2008)
• Lords approve free speech change to 'gay hatred' law (22 Apr 2008)
• Lap-dancing clubs multiply after licensing law change (22 Apr 2008)
• Survey reveals deep unease over loss of 'moral compass' (21 Apr 2008)
• Tony Blair did Stonewall's bidding says Ian McKellen (18 Apr 2008)
• Google close to becoming UK's biggest ad company (18 Apr 2008)
• Fines for drunk louts up two thirds in three years (18 Apr 2008)
• Cross-party opposition to lower age of consent in NI (18 Apr 2008)
• Quarter of Scots aged 15 have tried cannabis (18 Apr 2008)
• Rhys murder: blame loss of family values, says local MP (17 Apr 2008)
• Social breakdown consigns 3-year-olds to bleak future (15 Apr 2008)
• Scientists want embryos Bill to allow the "ultimate incest" (15 Apr 2008)
• Criminals allowed to foster but smacking couple banned (12 Apr 2008)
• Google: religion is not 'factual' on abortion (10 Apr 2008)
• Court case over animal- human embryos decision (09 Apr 2008)
• Christian foster couple banned over smacking (09 Apr 2008)
• Google faces court for ban on religious abortion ads (08 Apr 2008)
• New hope of stem cell cures without destroying embryos (08 Apr 2008)
• Coroner links teen's suicide to cannabis (08 Apr 2008)
• Family life is falling apart, judge warns (07 Apr 2008)
• Police want cannabis moved back to class B (04 Apr 2008)
• Same-sex storybooks ditched after Muslim parents' outcry (04 Apr 2008)
• Public against lowering age of consent in Northern Ireland (04 Apr 2008)
• PM and drugs advisors at odds over cannabis laws (03 Apr 2008)
• Scientists discount MPs and create animal-human embryo (03 Apr 2008)
• Care workers must support homosexuality, homes told (01 Apr 2008)

March 2008

• Poll shows public are against embryos Bill (31 Mar 2008)
• US magazine exposes crisis among Britain's teenagers (28 Mar 2008)
• Teen binge-drinking leads to violence and regretted sex (28 Mar 2008)
• Youngsters to be warned of cannabis mental health risk (27 Mar 2008)
• Early baby survival rates fuel calls for lower abortion limit (27 Mar 2008)
• The embryology Bill: what happens next? (26 Mar 2008)
• PM fails to give assurance on abortion in Northern Ireland (26 Mar 2008)
• Marriage rate hits lowest point since records began (26 Mar 2008)
• PM gives free vote on embryology Bill (25 Mar 2008)
• 'Brain dead' man wakes before organs are taken (25 Mar 2008)
• Brown under pressure over embryology Bill (25 Mar 2008)
• Poll shows most Britons believe in the resurrection (20 Mar 2008)
• Cameron repeats attack on Brown over embryo votes (20 Mar 2008)
• 1,300 girls on their second abortion by 18th birthday (20 Mar 2008)
• Kids from broken homes too sad to learn, teachers say (19 Mar 2008)
• Syphilis back from brink of extinction (18 Mar 2008)
• Abortion can harm mental health, say psychiatrists (17 Mar 2008)
• Wrong advice says council can be sued over prayers (14 Mar 2008)
• Outlaw paying for sex, say Scots campaigners (13 Mar 2008)
• PM attacked for forcing votes on embryos Bill (12 Mar 2008)
• Scottish Government consults on legalising sex between 13-year-olds (12 Mar 2008)
• 'Lord's Prayer' ad is offensive to Christians, rules watchdog (12 Mar 2008)
• Couple want right to choose IVF embryo with deaf gene (11 Mar 2008)
• Married couple win first round in 'civil partnerships' dispute (11 Mar 2008)
• Foetal pain and 'disabled' abortions to be reviewed (11 Mar 2008)
• Ministers may allow babies from artificial sperm and eggs (10 Mar 2008)
• Surge in late abortions fuels calls for reduced time limit (10 Mar 2008)
• Let MPs have free vote on embryos Bill, say experts (07 Mar 2008)
• Plans to give legal rights to cohabiting couples delayed (07 Mar 2008)
• Cabinet ministers threaten to rebel over embryos Bill (06 Mar 2008)
• House of Lords vote to repeal blasphemy laws (06 Mar 2008)
• Lords debate free speech clause to 'gay hatred' law (04 Mar 2008)
• MPs slam embryo watchdog for pre-empting Parliament (03 Mar 2008)
• Failed all-day drinking laws may be here to stay (03 Mar 2008)
• Consultation for religious groups on 'public benefit' (03 Mar 2008)

February 2008

• Government delays plans to change law on prostitution (29 Feb 2008)
• Primary school pupils could get compulsory sex lessons (26 Feb 2008)
• Brown sees no reason for lower abortion time limit (26 Feb 2008)
• Ministers give final thumbs up for 16 'gambling palaces' (26 Feb 2008)
• David Cameron wants abortion limit lowered (25 Feb 2008)
• 300,000 sign petition against New Zealand's smacking ban (25 Feb 2008)
• Grief over aborted twins drove woman to suicide (22 Feb 2008)
• One in ten gambling adverts break rules, says watchdog (22 Feb 2008)
• Outlaw paying for sex, say prostitution campaigners (22 Feb 2008)
• Stakes are raised as casino numbers threaten to rocket (21 Feb 2008)
• Doctors tell Government to get tough on alcohol (21 Feb 2008)
• Common sense urged for 'smacking cases' (20 Feb 2008)
• Christians win campaign to block sex shop application (20 Feb 2008)
• Renewed attempts to ban smacking ignore majority (15 Feb 2008)
• Bishops condemn gambling trade's "human pollution" (14 Feb 2008)
• Children with fathers do better, say researchers (14 Feb 2008)
• 'Female sperm' blurs human definitions, warn experts (13 Feb 2008)
• Underage drinking laws are not being enforced, say critics (13 Feb 2008)
• £47,000 fine for Bishop sued by homosexual youth worker (12 Feb 2008)
• Archbishop says UK should allow parts of Sharia law (07 Feb 2008)
• Experts tell drug advisors to toughen cannabis laws (06 Feb 2008)
• Scientists create GM embryo with two mums and one dad (05 Feb 2008)
• Ministers to 'cave in' over embryo research consent (05 Feb 2008)
• Stormont says keep age of consent at 17 (05 Feb 2008)
• Civil partnerships down by 55% after first year (04 Feb 2008)
• Calls for lower abortion limit as more early babies survive (01 Feb 2008)

January 2008

• Scientists attempt to create 'sperm' from women's bones (31 Jan 2008)
• Archbishop slams 24-hour drinking and Embryos Bill (31 Jan 2008)
• Don't say 'mum and dad', guidance tells teachers (30 Jan 2008)
• US photographer sued for not covering lesbian ceremony (29 Jan 2008)
• Bid to restrict abortion of disabled babies fails (29 Jan 2008)
• Cannabis must go back to Class B, say experts (29 Jan 2008)
• Babies feel pain before 24 week abortion limit (28 Jan 2008)
• Official poll reveals gay numbers hype (28 Jan 2008)
• Free speech amendment to 'gay hate' law tabled in Lords (24 Jan 2008)
• Lords say 'gay hate' law is a threat to free speech (23 Jan 2008)
• Green light for 16 new large casinos (23 Jan 2008)
• Peers vote to sideline role of fathers for IVF children (22 Jan 2008)
• Single-income married couples hit by taxman (21 Jan 2008)
• Law to undermine fathers is "irresponsible", says Peer (17 Jan 2008)
• Lords approve animal-human embryos and saviour siblings (16 Jan 2008)
• Lords vote on animal-human hybrids and 'saviour siblings' (15 Jan 2008)
• Stormont hears case against lowering NI age of consent (14 Jan 2008)
• Organ donations from patients 'not yet dead' (14 Jan 2008)
• Free speech clause to 'gay hate' law attracts support (10 Jan 2008)
• Churches to be consulted in review of blasphemy law (10 Jan 2008)
• Government wants to tighten cannabis law (09 Jan 2008)
• Britain's underage sex rates are the highest in Europe (08 Jan 2008)
• Peers to vote on embryos Bill (03 Jan 2008)
• 24-hour drinking laws won't change, reports The Times (03 Jan 2008)
• Twenty schoolgirls get pregnant every day (03 Jan 2008)