Brown wants rethink over MPs’ expenses Gordon Brown has indicated that he wants Parliament to think again over MPs’ expenses, prompting accusations of hypocrisy as the Prime Minister failed to vote. Labour MPs and ministers were largely responsible for the defeat in the Commons on the reform package. Mr Brown has indicated that he is keen for a tougher external audit regime. Paediatricians cleared The General Medical Council has dismissed accusations against three paediatricians, ruling that they have no case to answer. David Southall, Andrew Spencer and Martin Samuels had faced charges over a trial conducted at North Staffordshire Hospital in the 1990s on a way of helping newborn babies to breathe. No baptism, no bus A girl aged 15 can no longer take the school bus to her Roman Catholic School because she has not been...
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