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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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A Downing Street aide has been questioned by police investigating the loans for honours row. Ruth Turner, Tony Blair’s director of government relations, was interviewed under caution by officers from Scotland Yard last week, reports suggest. The news – which Downing Street has refused to comment on – increases the likelihood that the prime minister… Read more »
Jack Straw yesterday defended the big donors who propped up the Labour party, saying they were “not dodgy but honourable”. The leader of the House of Commons told the party conference in Manchester that members should be “profoundly grateful” to those people who had “put something back, to fulfil their sense of their civil duty”…. Read more »
