Junior doctors won’t be backing the new consultant contract, which is to offer increased payments to consultants in exchange for modernised working practices.Junior members of the profession say that it will unduly penalise people at the beginning of their career, and doesn’t do enough to support doctors working part-time.

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The Local Government Association has seized on the plight of A level school leavers in its campaign to radically modernise the shape of the school year.It says that the change it proposes would make life much easier for young people applying to university.

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