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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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Baroness Scotland’s career appears to have survived the controversy of her hiring an illegal immigrant, but Downing Street has launched a mini-reshuffle anyway. Analysts were expecting her departure to force Gordon Brown into filling in a few remaining posts from the last reshuffle earlier in June. But this morning the prime minister confirmed she would… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Lib Dems have called for tough criminal sanctions against those MPs caught breaking rules on allowances. During a vote at the party conference in Bournemouth, delegates voted for all MPs who “deliberately broke the rules” to be subject to investigation and – where justified – criminal prosecution. “We have an opportunity to… Read more »
