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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) says it is extremely worrying that the amount of money earmarked to cover the total cost of clinical negligence claims (including both including IBNR and PPOs) against the NHS in England has risen to £128.6 billion. This is an increase on the previous year’s figure of £85.2 billion and the… Read more »
Over 20 human rights, pro-choice, and international aid groups, and the Norwegian and Danish Governments, have called on the UK Government to reverse its decision to arbitrarily strip ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ and ‘bodily autonomy’ from an international human rights statement it – and 22 other countries – signed only two weeks ago…. Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson Culture secretary Ben Bradshaw has rejected James Murdoch’s claim that Britain’s media landscape is “Orwellian”. Speaking yesterday evening at a Royal Television Society conference in Cambridge, Mr Bradshaw responded to Mr Murdoch’s scathing attack against the BBC last month in which he attacked its state-sponsored status and claimed the market was being… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff British oil trading firm Trafigura is set to pay out millions of pounds after settling in one of the largest class actions in history. The firm, which is based in Holland but has a strong London arm, was accused of dumping hundreds of tons of ‘slops’ near Abidjan, in the Ivory Coast,… Read more »