UK marks 800th anniversary of Magna Carta
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has used the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta to urge a change in the country's human rights law.
PRIME Minister David Cameron has called for an overhaul of British human rights laws as he marked the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta at a ceremony led by Queen Elizabeth II.
THE commemoration was held on Monday on the meadow in Runnymede, south England, where on June 15, 1215 the queen's distant predecessor King John sealed the foundation document for Western parliamentary democracy.
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