The law gives the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Ministry – the Taliban’s morality police - sweeping powers to enforce a stringent code of conduct for Afghan citizens.
"If it means that we have to delay it to get it right, then that is what needs to happen."This is what Catie Fenner from Didcot, Oxfordshire, whose mother travelled abroad to end her life in 2023, said about
In November 2024, MPsthat would give people who are terminally ill and in the final six months of their life in England and Wales the right to choose to end their own life. But current UK law prevents people from asking for medical help to die.Ms Fenner said she believed campaigners and opposition should work together to ensure the bill "is about choice and one of the most robust in terms of safeguards in the world".
Her mother Alison was diagnosed with the incurable motor neurone disease (MND) in June 2022."She made the decision very quickly that she would not want to see the disease through to the end due to the horrendous state that your body ends up in."
Ms Fenner said Alison took out membership of Dignitas and went to Switzerland in February 2023.
She said her mother had had "the peaceful death that she wanted" but it had been "a horrendous ordeal" for her and the family."We've got a good business case. We just need a quick decision."
Restoring the line requires about three miles (5km) of new track.It was going to be funded by the Restoring Your Railway programme, before it was axed, with new stations to be built in the town centre and in Pill, as part of the Metrowest mass transportation project.
The Portishead link's price tag of £152m was set to have been partly funded by the DfT, which paid upfront costs of around £45m as part of the Restoring Your Railway fund.This was accompanied by additional funding from the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) and North Somerset Council.