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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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By politics.co.uk staff Parents will not be spared the requirement to work to continue to receive parents, Iain Duncan Smith has insisted. The work and pensions secretary told BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show that even those with a family to look after would risk losing their benefits if they refused to work. Plans to toughen… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pledged to seek “national reconciliation” a day after being freed by her country’s military junta. Senior figures in the UK government welcomed her release after she was detained for 15 of the last 21 years yesterday and backed her initial calls for discussion rather… Read more »
