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Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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High-polluting cars will have to pay £25 to enter London’s congestion charge zone from later this year, it has been announced. The move is the latest effort from the capital’s mayor, Ken Livingstone, who is seeking to turn London into a clean air low carbon emission zone through this and similar measures. From October 27th… Read more »
The western congestion charge zone will be abolished if Ken Livingstone loses the London mayoral elections in May. Both Boris Johnson and Brian Paddick have said they would stop charging drivers to enter the area encompassing Kensington and Notting Hill if elected mayor of London. Critics claim extending the congestion charge has dramatically increased the… Read more »
