News Bulletin 18 January 2013
A campaign to improve free speech, by removing the word ‘insulting’ from Section 5 of the Public Order Act, is to become law. The amendment was backed by the National Secular Society, The Peter Tatchell Foundation and The Christian Institute — Lillian Ladele, Shirley Chaplin & Gary McFarlane lost their appeals at the European Court of Human Rights. But Nadia Eweida did win her case after judges agreed that she had suffered discrimination when British Airways stopped her from wearing a cross at work — Identical twins who were deaf and going blind, but not terminally ill, have been given lethal injections to end their lives at a hospital in Belgium — Leading lawyer Aidan O’Neill QC, says plans to change the meaning of marriage could leave the Church of England open to legal challenge under human rights law — And the BBC is moving an established ‘primetime’ Christian Radio show to 6 o’clock in the morning.