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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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A parliamentary inquiry is taking placed into the government’s decision to grant approval for genetically modified crops to be grown commercially in Britain The House of Commons environment select committee will look at the implications of the move to allow the first GM crop to be grown commercially for animal feed. The committee of MPs… Read more »
A science teacher was yesterday cleared of assaulting a pupil. Hazel Dick had been accused of forcibly removing an Islamic headscarf from one of her students. A jury at Peterborough Crown Court took just an hour to decide on a unanimous not guilty verdict. Mrs Dick, head of science at Bretton Woods Community School, denied… Read more »
