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Responding to today’s announcement that the GMC is seeking views on a revised version of Good medical practice, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that it will be scrutinising the significant changes being proposed. The MDU, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, explained that regulations must be compatible with the realities of doctors’ working lives and… Read more »
BASC, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation, has expelled for life a member convicted of wildlife crime and firearms offences. Expulsion from BASC involves the loss of shooting insurance, on which the ability to shoot may depend, and other benefits of membership. The member from Nottinghamshire pleaded guilty to unlawfully trapping and beating to… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson Britain is considering suspending ‘normal’ relations with Iran in the wake of a series of diplomatically provocative incidents in the unstable Middle Eastern country. Senior figures in Iran accused Britain of fomenting unrest following the recent disputed election and last weekend nine UK diplomats were arrested. All but one have now been… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Three more British diplomats have been released by Iran, it has been reported. The Foreign Office confirmed two staff detained in Tehran over the weekend had been released in the last two days. Iranian media reported a third embassy staffer had been freed today, but these were not confirmed. “It remains our… Read more »
