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Nominations now open for the 2025 Eat Game Awards

The nominations for the 2025 Eat Game Awards have opened, and Eat Game wants to know which businesses and individuals you think are excelling when it comes to game meat – whether they are cooking it, selling it or talking about it. The Eat Game Awards 2025 boast eight categories for nominations, including best restaurant,… Read more »

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MDU initiative with RMBF supports over 500 medical professionals

A partnership with the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has enabled the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund (RMBF) to support over 500 doctors since 2021. This has been enabled by the MDU committing to donate the equivalent of half (£5) the subscription for each new foundation doctor who joins the MDU to RMBF The RMBF provide support for… Read more »

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Primary schools kids able to name illegal drugs
Primary school kids able to name illegal drugs

Most primary school children are able to name at least four illegal drugs, a new study has shown. The research conducted by Life Education consisted of surveys of 1,500 children between the ages of nine and 11 in schools in England and Northern Ireland. Students were asked about the names of illicit drugs they were… Read more »

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Cannabis is now a class B drug
Cannabis U-turn ‘a political travesty’

Opposition is growing to the government’s decision to reclassify cannabis as a class B drug. Danny Kushlick of charitable thinktank Transform Drug Policy Foundation says the government’s decision to reverse its January 2004 downgrading of cannabis to class C reflects the “political travesty” of current drug policy. Home secretary Jacqui Smith told the Commons yesterday… Read more »