News Bulletin 15 March 2013

The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has been accused of ‘wavering’ over Government plans to redefine marriage after saying that he would be ‘open to discussions’ on how gay marriage could work in a way that is acceptable to the Church — The Government has said that it will look at the need to protect public sector chaplains following the case of Revd Brian Ross, a chaplain at Strathclyde Police who lost his job after he expressed support for traditional marriage on his personal internet blog — A pensioner who pulled down a 5 foot Easter cross and threw it into a duck pond, got away with it because he’s an ‘atheist’, says Ann Widdecombe — A proposal to restrict abortion provision in Northern Ireland to the NHS has been defeated following a lengthy and impassioned debate at Stormont — A Tory peer claims that David Cameron wants to legalise drugs, but won’t admit it because he’s too scared of the press — And a man from Edinburgh with locked-in syndrome says it ‘is’ possible to ‘find meaning’ despite being in a ‘shell of a body’.