Lead story

MASSACRE OF A&E UNITS

by Daphne Liddle

ACCIDENT and emergency (A&E) units are being closed or threatened with closure all around the country and being replaced with general practitioner- led urgent care units for minor injuries.

Meanwhile emergency ambulance cases are having to travel ever further to fewer and fewer A&E units that are already struggling to cope. .

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Editorial

Osborne is killing our economy

CHANCELLOR George Osborne used to say that Britain being able to keep its AAA credit rating with agencies like Moody’s proved that his economic policies were on track. Now that rating has gone he has nowhere to hide. Whatever mess we are in now — heading fast to a third “dip” (we never climbed back out of the last two) is entirely his fault — and of course Cameron who gave him the job he was totally incompetent to handle.

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