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BASC Scotland has reinforced its calls for a community deer management pilot scheme in light of a new round of Scottish government deer contracts. The Scottish government agency responsible for managing publicly-owned forestry – Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) – has announced plans to cull a fifth of Scotland’s wild deer population over the next… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) says it is extremely worrying that the amount of money earmarked to cover the total cost of clinical negligence claims (including both including IBNR and PPOs) against the NHS in England has risen to £128.6 billion. This is an increase on the previous year’s figure of £85.2 billion and the… Read more »
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Prime minister Gordon Brown has called for a review into the pensions received by MPs. Mr Brown has ordered the Senior Salaries Review Body to consider the “full range of options” in order to reduce the burden placed on taxpayers by the scheme. It comes after an advisory body warned that the cost of pensions… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Labour has won its first by-election seat of 2009, bucking a strong national drift towards the Conservatives. Rohini Simbodyal took a Tory seat at Jubilee ward in Enfield Borough in north London. The Tory majority at the authority has now dwindled to three. Cannock West in Staffordshire’s Cannock Chase District saw a… Read more »
