Terrorism
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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Government safeguards used to defend ministers’ calls to increase the period for which terror suspects can be held without trial were today dismissed as “meaningless”. MPs said the government’s arguments for a 42-day detention period without charge period were a “charade” and dismissed appeals from home secretary Jacqui Smith. Appearing before the home affairs select… Read more »
Four of the five British residents held without trial by the US at Guantanamo Bay are to be released, it has emerged. Foreign secretary David Miliband formally wrote to his US counterpart Condoleeza Rice in August to request the release of the men, after the British government had previously refused to intervene as the men… Read more »
