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The Medical Defence Union (MDU), the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, has launched a new partnership with independent charity Doctors in Distress to provide MDU members with access to health and wellbeing services to support positive mental health. The partnership, launched today (13th November) to coincide with World Kindness Day, focuses on two initiatives. The… Read more »
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Humanists UK has welcomed the announcement of a Private Members’ Bill which would disestablish the Church of England and separate church and state. Currently the Church of England is the official state religion of England, and the monarch is both the head of state and the head of the Church of England. The practice of… Read more »
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By Kaye Wiggins Merlene Emerson, the Liberal Democrat candidate in Hammersmith, has said she never expected to win the seat and is hoping to win around 20 per cent of the vote. In a comment on a local blog, posted earlier this week, Ms Emerson wrote: “There was the era known as BC (before Cleggism)… Read more »
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By Catherine Stevenson Defeat in Winchester has confirmed the end of the Liberal Democrats’ ‘golden triangle’ in Hampshire. The Conservatives secured two out of three of the seats in the triangle and only Eastleigh remains in Lib Dem hands. Romsey and Southampton North had fallen to the Conservatives earlier. The last of these seats to… Read more »
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