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Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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Households in five areas of the country will be the first to trial controversial ‘pay as you throw’ bin taxes. Up to five councils have been invited to take part in pilot schemes to see whether offering households financial incentives to recycle can reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills. The UK is under… Read more »
Government plans for ‘pay as you throw’ bin taxes are “flawed” and would not work in the capital, the mayor of London has said. Ken Livingstone has written to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to warn plans to charge households for excessive waste would be a “disaster” in London. His intervention… Read more »
