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Junior docs in Scotland have known as off strikes deliberate for subsequent week after their union agreed an improved pay supply from the federal government.Members of BMA Scotland have been poised to launch three days of business motion on 12-15 July after they rejected an preliminary supply of a 14.5% improve over two years. The Scottish authorities then got here again with a revised supply of a 12.4% pay improve for junior docs and docs in coaching for 2023/24, alongside a pay rise of 4.5% awarded in 2022/23 - amounting to a cumulative improve of 17.5% over two years.BMA Scotland mentioned its Scottish Junior Doctor Committee (SJDC) right this moment agreed unanimously that it might advocate members settle for the supply in a consultative vote within the coming weeks.Polit...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump plans Friday to headline his largest Iowa marketing campaign occasion in practically 4 months with a speech to 1000's at an area within the western a part of the state. ...

The Scottish authorities has referred to as on Westminster to decriminalise all medicine for private use.Ministers mentioned the transfer, outlined in a brand new paper on drug regulation reform, would permit these present in possession of medicine to be handled and supported, somewhat than criminalised and excluded. Decriminalisation would additionally imply individuals in restoration would have a greater likelihood of employment as a result of they'd not have a prison document, the Scottish authorities mentioned.Other proposals embody fast legislative adjustments to permit Scottish ministers to implement hurt discount measures, comparable to supervised drug consumption services and enhance entry to the life-saving drug naloxone.The doc outlines measures that may very well b...

The prime House investigator is demanding a briefing from the Secret Service on how cocaine ended up in a key space of the West Wing, saying Congress deserves to know whether or not safety lapses led to the “shameful” episode on the White House. ...

A councillor whose lengthy COVID analysis was truly most cancers has died.Caroline Page, 65, a Liberal Democrat county councillor on Suffolk County Council, died on Wednesday evening. She contracted COVID in late 2020 and was referred to a protracted COVID service by 2021.Then, in 2022, she was recognized with lung most cancers.Suffolk County Council chairman, Keith Robinson, mentioned regardless of her well being challenges Ms Page had "committed everything she had" to making sure her space and its residents had been "looked after and championed".She was elected to the council in 2008 and held a number of positions together with being the spokesperson for Women, Disabilities and Adult Care, Highways and Transport, and Deputy Leader for the Liberal Democrat, Green and Indepen...

Electric bikes, that are quickly rising in reputation, are posing an rising security threat because of fast-spreading fires attributable to the lithium ion batteries that energy them. ...

Murals of cartoon characters on the partitions of an asylum centre for unaccompanied kids have been painted over after an order from the immigration minister, the Home Office has confirmed.Robert Jenrick ordered the elimination of the murals on the centre in Kent in April, which depicted characters akin to Baloo from The Jungle Book and Mickey Mouse, as a result of they had been regarded as too welcoming, the i newspaper reported. The paper mentioned employees had been "horrified" by the "cruel order" and had been resisting finishing up the work.But the Home Office has confirmed the murals had been eliminated on Tuesday.The i reported that Mr Jenrick additionally ordered vibrant welcome indicators to be eliminated as he wished to clarify the centre was a "law enforcement envi...

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto that makes an attempt to lock in a college funding enhance for 400 years drew outrage and shock from his political opponents, nevertheless it’s simply the most recent artistic reduce in a state that’s dwelling to probably the most highly effective partial gubernatorial veto within the nation. ...

Republican attorneys basic from 25 states are warning the Biden administration {that a} proposal to drive carmakers to go electrical within the identify of combating local weather change is illegal, a precursor for what the GOP officers inform The Washington Times is a looming authorized battle. ...

NEW YORK — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending an anti-LGBTQ video his marketing campaign shared on-line that assaults rival Donald Trump for his previous assist of homosexual and transgender individuals, regardless of a few of his fellow Republicans calling it homophobic. ...