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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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Boris Johnson has been sacked as arts spokesman for the Conservative Party amid allegations about his private life. The News of the World and the Mail on Sunday claim the editor of The Spectator had an affair with columnist Petronella Wyatt. The newspapers both claim Ms Wyatt had become pregnant and the MP had paid… Read more »
The Home Secretary David Blunkett has warned that Al Qaeda and other international terrorist networks are on Britain’s “doorstep and threatening our lives”. His comments followed those of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens who today confirmed that a “number” of attempted terror attacks in the UK had been successfully thwarted. Sir John said… Read more »
