Britain’s abortion law

Forty years after the Abortion Act came into effect, terminations in Britain are running at 450 a day.
Opponents of the legislation say the scale of abortion is reason enough to introduce substantial restrictions.
But as the issue seems about to become more political, pro-choice activists say the law should actually be relaxed.
A coalition of anti-abortion campaigners [...]

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Sykes body to be exhumed

This is puzzling, from Driffield Today:
A COURT has granted scientists permission to exhume the body of a Sledmere aristocrat who died nearly 90 years ago from one of the world’s deadliest viruses.

Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet.
Sir Mark Sykes, landowner, politician and diplomat died in France in 1919 of the Spanish Flu, which killed [...]

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