Sleight of hand on BT claim to drop charges for non-geographic 0845 and 0870...
BT trumpets that it has bowed to public pressure at last and is scrapping charges to the ‘non-geographic’ 0845 and 0870 numbers from 16th January 2009. These currently cost callers 5.8p a minute.That’s...
View ArticleChill out on Chilcot, leave Blair to karma
Of course the Chilcot Inquiry was never going to ask hard questions or reveal anything particularly damaging to the party which took us to war in Iraq, which remains in power and which established the...
View ArticleLabour in melt down
At a time when dwarves cast long shadows, Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoonhave launched a letter to members of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) asking for signatures to a call for an alternative...
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Mary’s Meals appeal for Haiti’s worst slum whom no one helps: Cite Soleil
Today’s Independent newspaper carries a focus on the people and the conditions in the notorious slums of Cite Soleil in Port au Prince the earthquake-devastated capital of Haiti.The piece, by Guy...
View ArticleMethadone: Baillie highlights drug deaths as McGrigor asks why towns should...
There is major unease in Campbeltown over a methadone clinic to be located at the hospital by dictat of NHS Highland, against the wish and advice of local GPs, drugs and alcohol abuse services and the...
View ArticleATOS and Bob Chicken’s petition on Disability Living Allowance
Bob Chicken from Tarbert has an epetition on the UK Government’s public petitions website. It needs 100,000 signatures for the chance of getting a parliamentary debate on the subject.The petition is:...
View ArticleATOS de-skilling disability assessors
Documents placed online by the Department of Work and Pensions at Westminster, dealing with the tendering of contracts to assess those in receipt of disability living allowances, have proved quite...
View ArticleBaillie says NHS Scotland being run hand to mouth, without strategic oversight
Scottish Labour has revealed the growing costs to the NHS of the increase in the number of doctors and nurses working beyond their contractual hours.In 2011-12, doctors worked almost 80,000 hours...
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