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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One of the men suspected of being involved in the July 21st attacks on London has lost his appeal against extradition from Italy. Hussain Osman’s lawyer last month lodged an appeal against an Italian court ruling approving his extradition to the UK. But after a 30-minute hearing today, the Cassazione, Italy’s highest appeal court, upheld… Read more »
Tony Blair will tomorrow join more than 170 world leaders for a United Nations (UN) summit in New York for what is the largest such gathering in history. The meeting is a chance to assess the progress on meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and discuss issues of international security. The prime minister is pushing… Read more »
