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Councils join forces to fight county housing problems - 5 Jan 2012

ALLERDALE council will work with local housing organisations and other agencies to tackle some of the area’s most pressing housing issues.


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Celebrities promote Cleveland APL pets; readers donate, adopt; pit bulls enter foster homes: Animals in the News - 5 Jan 2012

Animals in the News readers donated most of the 1,550 pounds of pet food and hundreds of treats, toys, blankets and cleaning supplies that Ohio Advocates for Companion Animals distributed last month to the Cleveland Kennel, Humane Society of Greater Akron and a Northfield food pantry for needy families.


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Terminally ill given less than a year to live 'should have right to ask their doctor for lethal drugs' - 4 Jan 2012

The report, financed in part by assisted suicide backer Sir Terry Pratchett, pictured, stopped short of recommending euthanasia of the kind practised by the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland.


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'Strong case' for assisted dying - 4 Jan 2012

There is a "strong case" for allowing assisted suicide for people who are terminally ill in England and Wales, a group of experts says.


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Right to Life: 'Falconer Report must be rejected' - 4 Jan 2012

Right to Life, the pro-life pressure group, has rejected the conclusions of the inquiry by the Commission on Assisted Dying.  The group says it is confident that Parliament will also reject the report, which calls for the legalisation of assisted suicide for terminally-ill patients, in view of "the continuous and unanswerable criticism surrounding the blatant and outrageous bias in favour of


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Gillard must review her stand on union influence - 4 Jan 2012

Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd are right and Julia Gillard is wrong on the power of trade unions (''Gillard rebukes Hawke on trade unions'', January 4).


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Letters: An insult to the memory of Beveridge - 4 Jan 2012

Liam Byrne, in his argument for increasingly punitive treatment of benefit claimants ( Beveridge for this century , 3 January), draws on Beveridge's rather brief discussion of "conditionality" in relation to the receipt of unemployment benefit. He mentions Beveridge's commitment to full employment, one of the assumptions in his great report as a basis for social insurance reform, but seems ...


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Apricus Biosciences and Stellar Pharmaceuticals Announce Exclusive License Agreement in Canada for the ... - 3 Jan 2012

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA and MILTON, ONTARIO-- - Apricus Biosciences, Inc. and Stellar Pharmaceuticals Inc. , a Canadian public company, announced today the signing of an exclusive license agreement. Under ...


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ReNeuron Group plc - Data confirms pre-clinical efficacy of ReN001 - 3 Jan 2012

ReNeuron Group plc - Data confirms pre-clinical efficacy of ReN001


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Freedom Disability Launches Referral Program in Response to Customers - 20 Dec 2011

Freedom Disability, a national Social Security Disability Advocacy group, has launched Freedom Cash Rewards, a unique online referral program designed to connect those who need Disability benefits to a premier advocacy service. Through this program, both the referrer and the person being referred would have the opportunity to earn cash rewards. ...


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Disability Rights Group Briefly Shuts Down MN Senate « CBS Minnesota

With less than two weeks left before the end of the session at the Minnesota Capitol, the budget is still up in the air. On Wednesday, a small group of people with ...

Disability-rights group protests at Ryan’s office over Medicaid ...

Several hundred demonstrators with disabilities gathered outside Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) office Tuesday to protest his budget’s proposed reduction in Medicaid ...

A Ragged Edge Online: Why Disability Rights Activists Oppose ...

There's little reporting on the U.S. disability rights movement's take on the issue of physician ... disability rights groups and Republicans are opposing this ...

First Read - Disability-rights group steps up Ryan protests

The disability rights group, ADAPT, whose members are lining the halls of Longworth protesting the block-grant provisions in Rep. Paul Ryan's 2012 budget ...

ALEX SCHADENBERG: Disability Rights Group Announces Opposition to ...

On Thursday, December 8 at 12:30 p.m. at the Massachusetts State House, disability rights advocates, speaking as part of a new group they are calling ...

Disability Rights Group Announces Opposition to Massachusetts ...

On Thursday, December 8 at 12:30 p.m. at the Massachusetts State House, disability rights advocates, speaking as part of a new group they are calling Second Thoughts ...

Media dis&dat: Disability rights group, ADAPT, celebrates its 25th ...

The disability rights group, ADAPT, will celebrate its 25th year of social change through direct action with a series of events in Washington, D.C., the ...


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