After a reprieve, the UK is to continue printing and storing its laws on vellum, made from calf or goat-skin. But shouldn't these traditions give way to digital storage, asks Chris Stokel-Walker. Last ...

Acts of Parliament on vellum rolls are stored in Victoria Tower in the Palace of Westminster An MP who backed moves to scrap Parliament's centuries-old tradition of printing laws on calf skin has ...

The 1,000-year-old practice of writing down laws on animal skin looks set to continue, a minister has said, just days after the House of Lords ruled that the ancient act would end. Peers said that ...

Acts of Parliament on vellum rolls are stored in Victoria Tower in the Palace of Westminster An MP who backed moves to scrap Parliament's centuries-old tradition of printing laws on calf skin has ...