The 70th birthday Stephen Hawking symposium

I feel extremely privileged to be able to attend a symposium to mark the 70th birthday of physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, a brilliant cosmologist acclaimed globally whose life has surpassed medical expectations. The remarkable Prof Hawking was told in 1963 that he had just months to live after being diagnosed with the degenerative Motor Neurone Disease, but he has miraculously defied medics...
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Government reforms ignore trans-racial adoption

It’s the best Christmas news for any child languishing in care and waiting to be placed with loving, adoptive parents – the announcement today that the government is replacing its crippling bureaucratic process with a new system.  Proposals include forming an expert panel to develop a new system and assessment form so suitable placements can be made starting next year. I hope the...
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