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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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Tributes have been pouring in after the death of former Labour leader Michael Foot aged 96. Here are a selection of the best quotes as the political world remembers one of the 20th century’s great political figures: Labour leader and prime minister Gordon Brown “Michael Foot was a man of deep principle and passionate idealism… Read more »
Harman damages Hague – but somewhere along the way, they swap places. By Ian Dunt Harriet Harman was so desperate to attack William Hague over the Ashcroft affair today she inadvertently slipped into becoming the opposition. It didn’t help, of course, that she referred to the shadow foreign secretary as the foreign secretary. That’s the… Read more »
