Episcopal pastoral letters against a proposed Bill to legalise assisted suicide in the UK, set to be read in Parliament on 29 November, keep rolling in from Catholic dioceses across the country.

Bishop Paul Swarbrick and Bishop Peter Collins, representing the Dioceses of Lancaster and East Anglia, respectively, have added their names to a growing list denouncing the proposition.

In letters distributed and read aloud at Mass throughout the Catholic churches of their dioceses, both bishops pleaded for both the faithful and legislators to see the "implications" which would likely result from the change in policy.