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The Government-backed independent review into political violence and disruption has been published today and recommends teachers to be given legal protections against allegations of ‘blasphemy’. This has been welcomed by Humanists UK, who has been leading the campaign for robust support for teaching staff in response to recent controversies, including the suspension of a teacher in Batley after showing an image… Read more »
The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has raised concerns about the increased workload and accountability for dentists taking on the supervision of provisionally registered colleagues who qualified overseas. Responding to Department of Health and Social Care provisional registration for overseas-qualified dentists the DDU says it has profound misgivings about whether the system being proposed is workable and practical from a workforce and patient safety… Read more »
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By Liz Stephens Several hundred protesters are expected outside the Vestas wind turbine plant on the Isle of Wight tonight, with more demonstrations planned outside the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Twenty-five workers are currently staging a sit-in protest in an attempt to save Britain’s only major wind turbine manufacturing plant from closure next… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson A Green by-election victory has stripped the Conservatives of overall control of Brighton and Hove city council. Alexandra Phillips, from Hove, won the Goldsmid by-election to raise Greens to joint second place with Labour. The Tories, who took 29.2 per cent of the Goldsmid votes compared to the Greens’ 38.5 per cent,… Read more »
