内容摘要：A spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: "Due to the challenging inheritance left by the previous government we have taken the difficult decision to close the Community Ownership Fund, but we are determined to boost opportunity in rural communities.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: "Due to the challenging inheritance left by the previous government we have taken the difficult decision to close the Community Ownership Fund, but we are determined to boost opportunity in rural communities.

"They have recognised that doing nothing and maintaining the status quo is unconscionable."However, Deputy Barbara Ward, who worked as a nurse for 45 years, was against the proposals and said it should be called "an assisted suicide bill".

Deputy Sir Philip Bailhache shared concern for the impact the plans could have on disabled people.He said if assisted dying was approved, Jersey risked becoming a society that told disabled people their lives are not as valued as those of non-disabled people.The Dean of Jersey, the Very Reverend Mike Keirle, told the States he was worried people could feel pressured to go down the assisted dying route.

He said autonomy can be subject to many "external pressures"."It would be fantastically naive to think that people won’t come under some kind of indirect societal pressure," he said.

"As the old saying goes, where there’s a will, there’s a family."

Patrick Lynch, chief executive of Caritas Jersey, which promotes Catholic social teaching, said it would be better for the States to "spend public money addressing poverty and issues in other areas of healthcare rather than assisted dying".He told the BBC that the UK is "prepared to play its part in securing the long-term future for Ukraine, for Europe and for Britain's national security".

The prime minister's announcement comes after the former head of the Army, Lord Dannatt, told the BBC theSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, he said sending troops to Ukraine would come at a "considerable cost" and require an increase in funding for the military.

"Frankly, we haven't got the numbers and we haven't got the equipment to put a large force onto the ground for an extended period of time at the present moment," he said.Former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers also warned that any peacekeeping force sent to Ukraine after the war must have "a very clear mandate" to ensure a ceasefire agreement holds.