May 2008

• Allow sex at 13, says Children's Commissioner (12/5/08)
• Free speech victory over 'homosexual hatred' law (8/5/08)
• Cannabis will be restored to class B, Government says (7/5/08)
• MPs remove free speech clause from 'gay hate' law (7/5/08)
• MPs to vote on free speech clause to 'gay hatred' law (2/5/08)
• Police blame drink laws for surge in women arrests (2/5/08)

April 2008

• Bradford police tell threatened convert to move away (30/4/08)
• Creator of abortion law wants 'abortion on request' (30/4/08)
• Public ignored as NI age of consent lowered to 16 (30/4/08)
• Elderly sisters told they can't have same tax rights as gays (29/4/08)
• More twelve-year-olds are having abortions (29/4/08)
• Majority of MLAs oppose lower age of consent in NI (29/4/08)
• Brown expected to overrule advisors over cannabis law (28/4/08)
• EU drops 'sexual orientation' from discrimination plans (25/3/08)
• RC dioceses scrap adoption work over 'gay rights' laws (25/4/08)
• Surge in mental illness linked to soft cannabis laws (25/4/08)
• Cohabiting couple treated as married by appeal court (25/4/08)
• Gay writer applauds free speech victory (24/4/08)
• Family breakdown harms children's mental health (24/4/08)
• 'Irresponsible' gambling ads pulled by watchdog (23/4/08)
• Lords approve free speech change to 'gay hatred' law (22/4/08)
• Lap-dancing clubs increase because of licensing loophole (22/4/08)
• Survey reveals loss of 'moral compass' (21/4/08)
• Tony Blair did Stonewall's bidding says Ian McKellen (18/4/08)
• Google close to becoming UK's biggest ad company (18/4/08)
• Fines for drunk louts up two thirds in three years (18/4/08)
• Cross-party opposition to lower age of consent in NI (18/4/08)
• Quarter of Scots aged 15 have tried cannabis (18/4/08)
• Rhys murder: blame loss of family values, says local MP (17/4/08)
• Social breakdown consigns 3-year-olds to bleak future (15/4/08)
• Calls for embryos Bill to allow the "ultimate incest" (15/4/08)
• Criminals allowed to foster but smacking couple banned (14/4/08)
• Google: religion is not 'factual' on abortion (10/4/08)
• Court case over animal-human embryos decision (9/4/08)
• Christian foster couple banned over smacking (9/4/08)
• Google faces court for ban on religious abortion ads (8/4/08)
• New hope of stem cell cures without destroying embryos (8/4/08)
• Coroner links teen's suicide to cannabis (8/4/08)
• Family life is falling apart, judge warns (7/4/08)
• Police want cannabis moved back to class B (4/4/08)
• Muslim row over same-sex storybooks (4/4/08)
• Public against lowering age of consent in NI (4/4/08)
• PM and drugs advisors at odds over cannabis laws (3/4/08)
• MPs ignored as animal-human embryos created (3/4/08)
• Care workers must support homosexuality (1/4/08)

March 2008

• Poll shows public are against embryos Bill (31/3/08)
• TIME magazine exposes crisis among UK teens (28/3/08)
• Teen binge-drinking leads to violence and regretted sex (28/3/08)
• Youngsters to be warned of cannabis mental health risk (27/3/08)
• Early baby survival rates fuel calls for lower abortion limit (27/3/08)
• The embryology Bill: what happens next? (26/3/08)
• PM fails to give assurance on abortion in NI (26/3/08)
• Marriage rate hits lowest point since records began (26/3/08)
• PM gives free vote on embryology Bill (25/3/08)
• 'Brain dead' man wakes before organs are taken (25/3/08)
• Brown under pressure over embryology Bill (25/3/08)
• Poll shows most Britons believe in the resurrection (20/3/08)
• Cameron repeats attack on Brown over embryo votes (20/3/08)
• 1,300 girls on their second abortion by 18th birthday (20/3/08)
• Kids from broken homes too sad to learn, teachers say (19/3/08)
• Syphilis back from brink of extinction (18/3/08)
• Abortion can harm mental health, say psychiatrists (17/3/08)
• Wrong advice says council can be sued over prayers (14/3/08)
• Outlaw paying for sex, say Scots campaigners (13/3/08)
• PM attacked for forcing votes on embryos Bill (12/3/08)
• Scots Government ponders legalising sex between 13s (12/3/08)
• 'Lord's Prayer' ad is offensive says watchdog (12/3/08)
• Couple want right to choose IVF embryo with deaf gene (11/3/08)
• Married couple win first round in 'civil partnerships' row (11/3/08)
• Foetal pain and 'disabled' abortions to be reviewed (11/3/08)
• Babies may be allowed from artificial sperm (10/3/08)
• Surge in late abortions fuels calls for lower time limit (10/3/08)
• Let MPs have free vote on embryos Bill, say experts (7/3/08)
• Plans to give legal rights to cohabiting couples delayed (7/3/08)
• Cabinet ministers threaten to rebel over embryos Bill (6/3/08)
• House of Lords vote to repeal blasphemy laws (6/3/08)
• Lords debate free speech clause to 'gay hatred' law (4/3/08)
• MPs slam embryo watchdog for pre-empting Parliament (3/3/08)
• Failed all-day drinking laws may be here to stay (3/3/08)
• Consultation for religious groups on 'public benefit' (3/3/08)

February 2008

• Government delays plans to change law on prostitution (29/2/08)
• Primary school pupils could get compulsory sex lessons (26/2/08)
• Brown sees no reason for lower abortion time limit (26/2/08)
• Ministers give final thumbs up for 16 'gambling palaces' (26/2/08)
• David Cameron wants abortion limit lowered (25/2/08)
• 300,000 oppose New Zealand's smacking ban (25/2/08)
• Grief over aborted twins drove woman to suicide (22/2/08)
• One in ten gambling adverts break rules, says watchdog (22/2/08)
• Outlaw paying for sex, say campaigners (22/2/08)
• Stakes are raised as casino numbers threaten to rocket (21/2/08)
• Doctors tell Government to get tough on alcohol (21/2/08)
• Common sense urged for 'smacking cases' (20/2/08)
• Christians win campaign to block sex shop licence (20/2/08
• Renewed attempts to ban smacking ignore majority (15/2/08)
• Bishops condemn gambling trade's "human pollution" (14/2/08)
• Children with fathers do better, say researchers (14/2/08)
• Experts: 'female sperm' blurs human definitions (13/2/08)
• Underage drinking laws are not being enforced, say critics (13/2/08)
• £47,000 fine for Bishop sued by homosexual youth worker (12/2/08)
• Archbishop says UK should allow parts of Sharia law (7/2/08)
• Ministers to 'cave in' over embryo research consent (5/2/08)
• Experts tell drug advisors to toughen cannabis laws (6/2/08)
• Scientists create GM embryo with two mums and one dad (5/2/08)
• Stormont says keep age of consent at 17 (5/2/08)
• Civil partnerships down by 55% after first year (4/2/08)
• Calls for abortion review as more early babies survive (1/2/08)

January 2008

• Scientists want to create 'sperm' from women's bones (31/1/08)
• Archbishop slams 24-hour drinking and Embryos Bill (31/1/08)
• Don't say 'mum and dad', guidance tells teachers (30/1/08)
• US photographer sued for not covering lesbian ceremony (29/1/08)
• Bid to restrict abortion of disabled babies fails (29/1/08)
• Cannabis must go back to Class B, say experts (29/1/08)
• Babies feel pain before 24 week abortion limit (28/1/08)
• Official poll reveals gay numbers hype (28/1/08)
• Free speech clause for 'gay hate' law tabled in Lords (24/1/08)
• Lords say 'gay hate' law is a threat to free speech (23/1/08)
• Green light for 16 new large casinos (23/1/08)
• Peers vote to sideline role of fathers in IVF (22/1/08)
• Single-income married couples hit by taxman (21/1/08)
• Sidelining fathers is "irresponsible", says Peer (17/1/08)
• Lords approve hybrid embryos and saviour siblings (16/1/08)
• Lords vote on animal-human hybrids and 'saviour siblings' (15/1/08)
• Stormont takes evidence on age of consent (14/1/08)
• Organ donations from patients 'not yet dead' (14/1/08)
• Free speech clause to 'gay hate' law attracts support (10/1/08)
• Churches to be consulted in review of blasphemy law (10/1/08)
• Government wants to tighten cannabis law (9/1/08)
• Britain's underage sex rates are the highest in Europe (8/1/08)
• Peers to vote on embryos Bill (3/1/08)
• 24-hour drinking laws won't change, reports The Times (3/1/08)
• Twenty schoolgirls get pregnant every day (3/1/08)