The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has appointed Mr Jerard Ross as head of Scottish affairs to champion the interests of the MDU’s growing number of members in Scotland. Over the last four years Scottish membership has grown almost 30%, according to the MDU, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation. Jerard, who has worked at the… Read more »
The three winners of the 2021 BASC Ladies’ Star of Shooting Awards have been announced. For the second year, the awards were split into three categories: Target Shooting, Game and Gamekeeping, and Field to Fork. More than 100 nominations were received. Laura Boswell, from Northamptonshire, took the Target Shooting category, Zoe Roper-Smith, from Norfolk, the… Read more »
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US President George W Bush is in Jordan today meeting with the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers to discuss facilitating peace in the Middle East. Mr Bush met with Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas separately in the king of Jordan’s palace in the port of Aqaba to discuss implementation of the US-led roadmap for peace…. Read more »
The Conservatives have warned that adopting the European measure of inflation could halve state pension increases. In the April budget the chancellor said that there was a ‘case in principle’ for adopting the internationally-recognised harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) instead of the retail price index (RPI) – the current measure of inflation in the… Read more »
