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Government’s justification for firearms fees increase ‘bogus’, says BASC

The UK’s largest shooting organisation has labelled the government’s justification for an increase in firearms licensing fees as bogus and warned that inefficient licensing puts guns in the hands of the wrong people. The comments from the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) come after the association wrote to all PCCs and Chief Constables… Read more »

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The government has ring-fenced health spending, but the DoH will apparently suffer 1,700 job cuts
1,700 DoH staff ‘face the axe’

by Peter Wozniak As many as 1,700 outsourced staff working at the Department of Health (DoH), including medical professionals, are to be made redundant, according to media reports. The staff, employed by the DoH to work in a variety of programmes include health professionals, dentists and psychiatrists, are apparently to be sacked as a result… Read more »

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Lansley must now fight off a legal challenge from Unison
Union starts legal action against Lansley’s NHS reforms

By Ian Dunt The UK’s largest public service union has started legal action against the health secretary in a bid to derail plans to reform the NHS. Unison is challenging Andrew Lansley’s white paper proposals, which it brands “the most fundamental changes to the way the NHS operates since it was created”. The union claims… Read more »