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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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John MacDougall, Scottish Labour MP for Glenrothes, has died, triggering a by-election in his constituency. Mr MacDougall had been struggling with mesothelioma, an incurable cancer of the lungs, for several years. Gordon Brown visited him the day before he died. “Over three decades he has been a good personal friend of mine and I visited… Read more »
Miliband’s recent assault on Gordon Brown’s leadership must have stung. Not only did Miliband’s subversive Guardian article catch Brown off-guard while he was on holiday, but the foreign secretary is unmistakably reminiscent of the prime minister the Labour Party leader fought so tirelessly to oust. Like Blair, Miliband is Oxford-educated, born with silver service firmly… Read more »
