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DDU welcomes GDC plans to extend fitness to practise pilot

The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has welcomed the extension of a GDC pilot aimed at speeding up the initial inquiries made to assess fitness to practise cases. The pilot, which was announced in September last year and was due to end in April, has now been extended until the end of October after ‘early positive signs’. Of… Read more »

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Majority of PCCs Supportive of Shooting, says BASC

BASC has published the results of its interactions with Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) following last week’s elections. In the run up to the poll, BASC wrote to each of the 40 candidates in England and Wales and set up a platform for members to contact their local candidates to find out where they stood… Read more »

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Chancellor Gordon Brown's son, Fraser, has cystic fibrosis
Brown’s son has cystic fibrosis

Gordon Brown’s youngest son has been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, the Treasury confirmed last night. The chancellor and his wife, Sarah, were told about James Fraser’s condition soon after his birth in July, although it is thought to have been confirmed only recently. In a statement, the Treasury said the baby was “fit, healthy and… Read more »

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Harriet Harman will put family at the heart of her deputy leadership bid
Labour’s family policies ‘must go further’

Harriet Harman will today mark out the family as a key battleground in both the forthcoming Labour deputy leadership and the next general election. The constitutional affairs minister will say that although Labour’s victory in 1997 represented a “watershed”, with the introduction of the minimum wage and more time off for parents among others, family… Read more »