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Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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Geoff Hoon, transport secretary, has promised to “make progress” on expanding UK airports. The statement is a clear indication the government will not back down in the face of increasing criticism about the plans, especially given the strict new carbon emission targets the government has set itself. Green activists have questioned how the government expects… Read more »
Foreign secretary David Miliband is flying out to the Congo this afternoon to help tackle the violence engulfing the region. Mr Miliband said the eastern Congo risks turning into a humanitarian catastrophe unless a political solution is found. “I have also discussed with the French, German and Belgian foreign ministers and Javier Solana, European support… Read more »
