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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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SNP: Coalition taking wrecking ball to recovery
Ian Dunt George Osborne’s plans to cut 490,000 jobs from the public sector could end up costing the taxpayer £8 billion, Labour has said. Shadow chancellor Alan Johnson extrapolated from figures showing that it would cost £230 million to make 140,000 Ministry of Justice staff redundant. “If the taxpayer has to foot a comparable redundancy… Read more »
