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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All planes leaving the UK should be subject to a departure duty, according to the Liberal Democrats. Party leader Charles Kennedy outlined plans to make the polluter pay in a major speech on the environment today. Mr Kennedy claimed that intelligent application of ‘green taxes’ would help change behaviour and encourage good environmental practice among… Read more »
The Ministry of Defence is facing legal action from the families of six Red Caps killed in Iraq. The relatives have accused the Army of denying them a public inquiry into the deaths and insist that legal action is the only way to find out how the soldiers died. The families plan to sue the… Read more »
