Parental bereavement leave bill passes first stage - BBC News
The House of Lords nods through at first stage a bill which would give employees leave in the event of losing a child.
Proposals to include mothers' names on marriage certificates in England and Wales have moved a step closer to becoming law.

The Registration of Marriage Bill cleared committee stage in the House of Lords in little more than 30 minutes after peers approved a series of technical amendments, including curbing the powers of ministers over how to implement the changes.

The Bishop of St Albans's bill introduces reforms to move from a paper-based system to an electronic register.

This would make it possible to included mothers' details, with the system since 1837 only providing space for the name of the father of each of the couple to be recorded.

Home Office Minister Baroness Williams of Trafford said all the different family circumstances of society would be provided for under the new registration system, including same-sex parents.

The bill still has report and third reading stages to complete in the Lords before then moving to the House of Commons, where it will need to secure time on a Friday sitting to be considered by MPs.

Conservative former minister Dame Caroline Spelman, the Church of England's official representative in the Commons, has moved an identical bill as the campaign for change seeks to achieve its aim as quickly as possible.

The government supports the changes, so it's more likely to be considered and become law.