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The songs of moorland bird species have been recorded in the Calderdale area as part of a new campaign to provide their unique sounds to local care homes. The Moorland Chorus recording will be used as a therapeutic tool for those no longer able to easily access the uplands. Organised by the British Association for Shooting and… Read more »
The House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee has published the report of its inquiry into NHS litigation reform. The Medical Defence Union (MDU) engaged closely with this inquiry, submitting written evidence. The MDU welcomes the publication of today’s report but cautioned against too much focus on fundamental and complex structural change, at… Read more »
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The government will continue to resist calls from teachers’ unions to moderate its “obsession” with testing, following a statement from the new children and schools secretary Ed Balls that national tests and school league tables will not be scrapped. Critics of the government’s education policy had been hoping for a new approach from Gordon Brown’s… Read more »
Polls have opened in by-elections in London and County Durham. Voters in Ealing Southall in west London and Sedgefield will today select their new MP. Labour are expected to hold on to Tony Blair’s former seat of Sedgefield but the Liberal Democrats have made strong gains in Ealing Southall. Labour candidate Phil Wilson is widely… Read more »