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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is urging supporters of sustainable shooting to take immediate action in response to a petition by Wild Justice calling for a ban on grouse shooting. Many newly elected MPs may be unfamiliar with the environmental, social and economic benefits sustainable grouse shooting delivers, leaving them open to… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has called on the government to press ahead with long promised reforms aimed at controlling the costs of clinical negligence cases. In written evidence to the House of Commons public accounts committee into NHS financial sustainability the MDU explains that the government must introduce legal reforms to the current clinical negligence system… Read more »
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Countries across the Western and Arab world are being pressured to pledge money to the reconstruction of Iraq. Today the international community will reveal how much of the $36 billion that the World Bank says is needed has been pledged. However it is thought that the total announced at the donors’ conference in Madrid may… Read more »
Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday downplayed the severity of his heart scare last Sunday. It was reported last wekend that Mr Blair was hit with supra ventricular tachycardia – a condition where the sufferer feels unwell, with serious heart irregularities and shortness of breath. At his monthly televised news conference in Downing Street, the 50-year… Read more »
