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A new poll of headteachers has once again shown that there is widespread opposition to the current law mandating schools to hold a daily act of collective Christian worship. Almost 2,000 school leaders were surveyed, with 70% of them opposed to the legal requirement. Humanists UK has long campaigned for the replacement of compulsory Christian worship in… Read more »
The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has welcomed the extension of a GDC pilot aimed at speeding up the initial inquiries made to assess fitness to practise cases. The pilot, which was announced in September last year and was due to end in April, has now been extended until the end of October after ‘early positive signs’. Of… Read more »
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Prime minister Tony Blair has undermined public trust in politics and is facing a crisis over standards in public life as significant as the cash for questions scandal that marked the end of John Major’s government, the outgoing public standards watchdog has claimed. Sir Alistair Graham claims the Labour government will be “as closely associated… Read more »
A businessman who lent £1 million to Labour at the 2005 general election has reportedly admitted to discussing peerages with the party’s chief fundraiser, Lord Levy. But in a letter, obtained by the Sunday Telegraph, to stakeholders in his company, Professor Sir Christopher Evans strongly denies the implication that he was promised an honour in… Read more »
