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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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Published by Little Brown, out now, hardback, 405 pages, £18.99. In a nutshell… Hardnosed, opinionated, cringeworthy – ghastly What’s it all about? Political autobiographies are always hotly anticipated. This one made the headlines last weekend because of its timing, coming alongside Lord Levy and John Prescott’s memoirs. They all have unpleasant things to say about… Read more »
David Cameron spent the last half-hour before Wednesday’s draft Queen’s Speech gently undermining public confidence in the prime minister. The Conservative leader’s mantra throughout his questions was that Gordon Brown was not being “straight”. Whether it was on the 10p tax debacle, plans for a referendum on Scottish independence, the “cancelled election” or housing minister… Read more »
