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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 The coalition government remains popular with voters after 100 days, a new YouGov poll suggests. The survey found that 43% of voters thought the new government was performing better than the last one, with just 26% saying it performed worse. David Cameron’s net approval rating stood at +20, with George Osborne on… Read more »
From outright ignorance to devious calculation, the coalition’s mixed motives have left its foreign policy open to criticism in its first 100 days. Dark undercurrents of domestic party politics might be to blame. By Alex Stevenson Both David Cameron and Nick Clegg recognised, very early on, the need to integrate Lib Dem ministers across the… Read more »
