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MDU appoints new head of Scottish affairs to champion member interests

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has appointed Mr Jerard Ross as head of Scottish affairs to champion the interests of the MDU’s growing number of members in Scotland. Over the last four years Scottish membership has grown almost 30%, according to the MDU, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation. Jerard, who has worked at the… Read more »

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Winners announced for BASC Ladies’ 2021 Star of Shooting Awards

The three winners of the 2021 BASC Ladies’ Star of Shooting Awards have been announced. For the second year, the awards were split into three categories: Target Shooting, Game and Gamekeeping, and Field to Fork. More than 100 nominations were received. Laura Boswell, from Northamptonshire, took the Target Shooting category, Zoe Roper-Smith, from Norfolk, the… Read more »

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Former T&G says trade unions must accept their role in Labour has change
Unions ‘should have less influence over Labour’

Unions should no longer have such a large say in how Labour party policy is formulated, a former leader of the Transport and General Workers’ union (T&G) has suggested. Bill Morris, who was general secretary of the union from 1991 to 2003, said declining membership meant unions no longer had the democratic mandate they used… Read more »

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Oxfam report criticises G8 countries over aid pledges
G8 aid pledges ‘unlikely to be met’

The eight richest countries are unlikely to meet their commitment to increase aid to developing countries by $50 billion by 2010, Oxfam has warned. In a new report, the aid charity says the practice of double-counting, where rich countries count debt cancellation in their aid budgets, continues and is hiding the real level of aid…. Read more »