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Posted 27/08/2012 It appears that some women may have multiple miscarriages because they are ‘super fertile’ and their wombs allow embryos to implant even if they are of poor quality...
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Posted 16/12/2010 An 82-year-old from Bath who is suffering from mesothelioma and has just months to live has been awarded £115,000 from his former employer. Bernard Mottram worked for BT...
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Posted 18/05/2014 Two articles claiming cholesterol-reducing statins may be unsafe are to be investigated and could be retracted by the British Medical Journal. The authors have withdrawn figures suggesting up...
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Posted 08/10/2012 The BBC has reported that more than 700,000 people recently immunised against typhoid may not have full protection because of a dud vaccine that has now been recalled...
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Posted 18/09/2011 A young woman who suffered brain damage as a result of a car accident has won £3 million in personal injury compensation due to her injuries. Vicki Hart...
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Posted 29/04/2014 The BBC has reported that the health trust which ran the Mid Staffordshire Hospital has been fined £200,000 for failing a diabetic patient who died in their care. ...
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Posted 30/10/2009 Companies looking to the government’s Business Payments Support Service (BPSS) scheme as a way to avoid insolvency have received a reminder that it will not provide assistance to...
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Posted 27/01/2010 The government has committed to continuing to implement employment law changes in order to foster better equality standards in UK workplaces. Minister for women and equality Harriet Harman...
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Posted 07/05/2012 Ashtons Legal’s personal injury team were instructed by a family involved in a head on road collision in 2009. There were four members of the same family in...
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Posted 24/04/2012 When a defendant insurer is forced to admit that their driver was at fault following a road traffic accident in which someone else has suffered serious injuries, the...
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Posted 15/01/2010 The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has urged the government to revise employment law relating to equality in order to create a fairer climate for ethnic minority workers in...
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Posted 26/01/2010 Older workers must be offered more opportunities and support under employment law, according to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The body is proposing a series of...
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