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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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The crown will pass to female heirs, under new proposals being drawn up by the government, opening up the door to Prince William’s heir being a woman, if his firstborn is a girl. The proposals form the centrepiece of a series of reforms to the constitutional arrangements governing the monarchy. Ministers also want the 300-year-old… Read more »
Gordon Brown says the international community can “work together” to solve the international financial crisis, as he prepares to travel to Washington. The prime minister, speaking to reporters in New York after meetings with world leaders, said he had talked to “every continent in the last few hours” over a number of proposals he is… Read more »
