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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Gordon Brown has expressed his “very severe condolences” to the families of two British men whose bodies were handed over to UK authorities in Iraq on Friday. Today the two bodies were identified as Jason Creswell and Jason Swindlehurst, two out of five men taken hostage two years ago in Baghdad. “It is with deep… Read more »
The Sunday Telegraph has revealed the expenses claims of candidates seeking to be elected speaker on Monday. The paper, which holds files that have not been redacted or blacked out, has reported on the claims of Labour candidates Margaret Beckett and Parmjit Dhanda, Liberal Democrat hopeful Sir Alan Beith and the Conservatives running for the… Read more »
