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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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Children’s Minister Margaret Hodge has apologised to a man that she labelled ‘extremely disturbed’ in a letter to the BBC. The BBC has been investigating abuse of children in Islington, a council that Ms Hodge led in the 80s. The issue has dogged her time as children’s minister, and she wrote to the Corporation about… Read more »
Prince Edward’s wife, the Countess of Wessex, has been reunited with her daughter, six days after the Royal baby was born by emergency Caesarean section. Sophie is recovering at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey, while the baby, who has not yet been named, has been treated at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, London. She was… Read more »
