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BASC builds relationships with PCCs

Two Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in the north of England have committed to working with BASC to improve firearms licensing in their areas. Martin Parker, BASC’s head of firearms, travelled to meet Jonathan Evison, the re-elected PCC for Humberside, and Dan Price, the new PCC for Cheshire. At both meetings, firearms licensing was discussed… Read more »

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MDU calls for urgent reform to clinical negligence legislation.

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has today called for the new government to focus on the unsustainable cost of clinical negligence claims and to prioritise proposals for legal reform following the publication of NHS Resolution’s (NHSR) Annual report for 2023/24. The report found that in 2023/24 NHS Resolution, the body responsible for clinical negligence claims against GPs… Read more »

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The Government is expected to make its decision on who will be allowed to continue with a merger with the supermarket chain Safeway, later today. Safeway’s 479 stores are currently at the centre of a bidding war from its rivals Tesco, Sainsbury, Wal-Mart owned Asda and WM Morrison. The Competition Commission warned in August that… Read more »

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Milburn calls for greater purpose from Government
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Alan Milburn, former Secretary of State for Health, has called for the Government to be bold and change politics in Britain. Writing in the Guardian newspaper, he called on Labour to shift British politics in a way that only Margaret Thatcher and Clement Attlee have done before. The former cabinet Minister suggested that the Government… Read more »