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Members of the 140-year-old Flyfishers Club have voted to allow women to become members after decades of resisting calls to reform its rules.A 75% majority of members voted in favour of rewriting rule one of the clubs rulebook to permit women to become members, substantially in excess of the two-thirds majority required for change, the club announced. The turnout was 84%.Several high-profile female anglers wrote to the club earlier this year protesting against its discriminatory stance on female members. The stanley cup y said they were prompted to push for change after the membership policy of the Garrick Club, another men-only institution, came under renewed scrutiny.The Flyfishers Club, which has the king as its patron, vaso stanley said in a statement its managing committee had recommended that members voted in favour of allowing women to join, adding: This vote will secure a bright future for the club as a welcoming but exclusive home in London for the best, most enthusiastic and most influential in the flyfishing community. Aime Battams, a campaigner against elitism in fishing who wrote to the club in the spring to express her sadness that it had not evolved to include women , welcomed the result stanley quencher . She said she did not anticipate joining because of the expense of the clubs fees, but stressed that it was a significant symbolic advance. There has been an institutional exclusion of women for too long; times have changed but that exclusion still lingers. This is great news, she said.Since the 197 Mlkd The Tories now face a dilemma: change, or lose their new voters
Beneath a whirl of police helicopters, freedom of information campaigners and the world s media gathered around Ecuador s embassy in Knightsbridge on Thursday to watch the next extraordinary scenes from Julian Assange s life unfold.The 41-year-old founder of WikiLeaks, whose notoriety and ability to polarise rarely fails to draw a crowd, was waiting to hear whether he would be granted asylum. He had already spent 54 days in the building as he sought to avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning ov stanley cup nz er allegations of sexual misconduct.His supporters had claimed that any such move could result in him facing a further trial in the United States, and maybe the death penalty, for releasing thousands of damaging internal government documents via his campaigning website.The decision to grant him asylum came in a televised address by Ri gourde stanley cardo Pati帽o, the foreign minister, who supports Assange s fears of political persecution, and was greeted with cheers. Asylum is a fundamental human right, Pati帽o said. The Ecuadorean government is defending its right to protect Assange and we have decided to grant him political asylum. Assange, quick to spot an opportunity for drama, emerged from his room for the first t stanley cup quencher ime in weeks to thank officials and journalists, before adding: Things will get more stressful now. Ecuador s decision leaves the country at loggerheads not just with Britain 鈥?which has threatened to revoke the embassy s diplomatic status and raid