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Reed Elsevier, the publisher and exhibitions group, ended its involvement in the arms
trade yesterday after a sustained campaign from doctors, healthcare groups, authors and
pacifist organisations.
The group, which owns the medical journal The Lancet, had faced boycotts and continued
protests from authors, academics and medical professionals. They said that the
group’s role in organising arms fairs undermined The Lancet’s attempts to
improve health. Reed Elsevier’s biggest arms fair is the Defence Systems and
Equipment International, which is held every two years at London’s Excel arena.
Britain's highest paid civil servant has announced his resignation as head of the £12
billion computer project for the National Health Service.
Richard Granger, 42, chief executive of NHS Connecting for Health, was responsible for
upgrading information technology (IT) systems and introducing electronic patient records.
Although computer systems have been improved in many trusts, the project has been
criticised for delays and design flaws.
Royal Mail has lost a contract worth £8 million a year to deliver goods
for Amazon, the online retailer of books, CDs, DVDs and other merchandise.
On-message: MPs can take BlackBerrys into Chamber
Times Online, June 20
MPs are likely to be allowed to bring BlackBerrys into the Commons chamber for the
first time so that they can check and send e-mails as they wait to speak in debates. It
comes after a revolt by MPs against Commons rules that require them to sit for up to six
hours on the back benches before they are called to make a speech.
Younger MPs, particularly the new generation of women elected in 2005, protested that
their time spent waiting to speak in the chamber was wasted because of a convention
barring MPs from using handheld devices.
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