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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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There are strong signs this morning that former Labour spin-guru Alistair Campbell could be making a return to front line politics for the European and County elections in June. Mr Campbell has previously made it clear he does not want a full-time job but is willing to help out in Labour efforts to get re-elected…. Read more »
Electors in recent by-elections, such as the one in Glasgow East, may have lost out on their chance to vote because of prohibitively short timetables, the Electoral Commission has found. “Short timescales mean that electors have little time – in some instances only two working days – to register to vote or apply for a… Read more »
