The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has appointed Dr Caroline Fryar as professional services director to lead the team guiding, supporting, and defending healthcare professionals with ethical and medico-legal issues. Dr Fryar has worked at the MDU for seventeen years in various roles, most recently as director of medical services. She was previously a GP. Caroline… Read more »
Royal Mail has shelved plans to impose a blanket ban on the carriage of knives which would have unfairly penalised the shooting community and hundreds of small businesses across the country. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) wrote to Royal Mail’s chief executive pointing out that the ban would severely impact retailers across the… Read more »
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Only one Labour rebel has been included in the committee designed to discuss the higher education bill, it was announced today. George Mudie is the only member of a 72-strong contingent of Labour MPs who voted against the introduction of higher tuition fees to be named, prompting suggestions that the government has ‘stacked’ the committee… Read more »
Opposition leader Michael Howard has called for Tony Blair to resign because he failed to ask “basic questions” about intelligence used as the basis for the government’s dossier on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The prime minister has revealed that he was not aware that the claim that Iraq could launch WMD within 45 minutes… Read more »
