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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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Environmentalists and the Liberal Democrats have reacted with outrage to Government plans to store foreign nuclear waste in the UK. The plans, announced in a written ministerial statement last night, will see “intermediate” nuclear waste that has been reprocessed in the UK stored in the UK instead of being returned to the country of origin…. Read more »
Tony Blair and Michael Howard have clashed in the Commons on their respective political records. In the last Prime Minister’s Question Time before Christmas, the Conservative leader sought to portray the Government as failing to fulfil its promises, whilst Mr Blair hit back with examples of Labour’s successes and attacked the Tory spending plans. Attacking… Read more »
