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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By Alex Stevenson Four policemen face prosecution over allegations that they beat and verbally abused a terror suspect in 2003. Police Constables Cowley, John Donohue, Roderick James-Bowen and Mark Jones will appear before City of Westminster magistrates court next month facing actual bodily harm charges on the person of IT worker Babar Ahmad. Mr Ahmad… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff An anti-terror advert which suggested people who kept their curtains drawn could reasonably be suspected as terrorists has been banned. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the radio advert from the Association of Chief Police Officers, broadcast on Talksport, was capable of causing “serious offence”. The brief advert outlined the behaviour of… Read more »
