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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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George Galloway has denied “fawning on” former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein when he met him in the mid 1990s, as his libel trial with the Daily Telegraph continued. Mr Galloway is suing The Telegraph over allegations that he received £375,000 in oil money from the dictator’s regime. The claim was made by the newspaper’s foreign… Read more »
Britain’s minimum wage should be frozen at £4.85 an hour until 2006 according to business leaders. The CBI will tell the Low Pay Commission (LPC) – an independent advisory body on the minimum wage – that hard-pressed businesses need a “pause year” to draw breath from last month’s above inflation rise. Last month, the minimum… Read more »
