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Maik:

--- Quote ---Britain is no longer a Christian country and should stop acting as if it is, says judge
A major inquiry into the place of religion in modern society has provoked a furious backlash from ministers and the Church of England

A two-year commission, chaired by the former senior judge Baroness Butler-Sloss and involving leading religious leaders from all faiths, calls for public life in Britain to be systematically de-Christianised.

It says that the decline of churchgoing and the rise of Islam and other faiths mean a "new settlement" is needed for religion in the UK, giving more official influence to non-religious voices and those of non-Christian faiths.

The report backs moves [to] cut the number of Church of England bishops in the Lords and give places to imams, rabbis and other non-other non-Christian clerics as well as evangelical pastors.

Meanwhile the coronation service for the next monarch should be overhauled to include other faiths, the report adds.

Controversially, it also calls for a rethink of anti-terror policy, including ensuring students can voice radical views on campus without fear of being reported to the security services.

And it also recommends new protections for women in Sharia courts and other religious tribunals – including a call for the Government to consider requiring couples who have a non-legally binding religious marriage also to have a civil registration.

The report highlights figures showing the decline in people who say they are Anglicans from 40 per cent in 1983 to less than a fifth in 2013.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/12036287/Britain-is-no-longer-a-Christian-country-and-should-stop-acting-as-if-it-is-says-judge.html


--- Quote ---Only two in five British people now identify as Christian, the two-year inquiry found, while there has been a general move away from mainstream denominations to evangelical and Pentecostal churches.

Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism have overtaken Judaism as the largest non-Christian faiths in Britain.

Yet the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, as well as the Bishops of Durham, London and Winchester, automatically take seats in the Lords – with an additional 21 seats reserved for other bishops.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bishops-in-house-of-lords-should-make-way-for-leaders-of-other-religions-a6762821.html

Maik:

--- Quote ---Tyson Fury labels those who signed BBC SPOTY award petition as 'w******'
Some have called for the heavyweight world champion to be removed from the list of nominees due to his controversial comments

World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has taunted his rivals for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award by claiming he has more character than all of them put together.

Fury was controversially nominated for the BBC's flagship sport award, and an online petition set up by LGBT campaigner Scott Cuthbertson has already collected more than 50,000 signatures demanding that he is removed from the list over his outspoken comments about homosexuality.

The 27-year-old also reiterated his views on women after earlier saying that Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill "slaps up good" and "looks good in a dress", adding that "a woman's best place is in the kitchen and on her back".

He said in the latest interview: "I'm a little bit backward. I didn't really go to school. Which part of a woman looks good in a dress is sexist?

"Or was it about the cooking and cleaning? I stand up for my beliefs. My wife's there (standing alongside Fury). Her job is cooking and cleaning and looking after these kids. That's it.

"She does get to make some decisions. What she's going to cook me for tea in a bit when I get home. That's the decisions what she gets to make. That's my beliefs, just like I believe in Lord Jesus Christ as my lord and saviour and if anyone wants to dispute that let them do it.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/boxing/tyson-fury-labels-those-who-signed-bbc-spoty-award-petition-as-w-a6762471.html

Maik:

--- Quote ---Monarch returns to profit after near-collapse
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/12036744/Monarch-returns-to-profit-after-near-collapse.html

That's the airline, not Lizzie  ;)

Maik:

--- Quote ---Alaska Airlines plane kills deer while landing in Santa Rosa

The plane landed safely but the animal died.
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http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Alaska-Airlines-plane-kills-deer-while-landing-in-6677315.php


--- Quote ---SpiceJet flight hits wild boar on runway at Jabalpur airport

In September, a herd of pigs were on the runway as President Pranab Mukherjee’s aircraft was taxiing towards the terminal building after landing in Nagpur. Ten days later, around ten rabbits were spotted while a commercial flight was landing at the same airport. In November last year, a SpiceJet flight with over hundred passengers onboard hit a buffalo on the runway in Surat.
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/jabalpur-wild-boars-on-runway-send-spicejet-plane-off-it/story-anT1H1WeZ1it9QcH1YOcfM.html

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