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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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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is considering selling some of the Eurofighters it has ordered but cannot now afford, a report claims. According to the Financial Times newspaper the MoD may be forced to sell some or all of its 88 Eurofighters to other countries like Japan, South Africa or India because of its estimated… Read more »
Former Scottish first minister Henry McLeish will not be standing as Labour’s candidate in Glenrothes, he has confirmed. Mr McLeish had been widely linked to the seat after sitting MP John MacDougall died last week. But he has now moved to quash further speculation by insisting that both he and Scottish political life have “moved… Read more »
