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Nurses told to get on bikes

MORE doctors and nurses have been forced to walk, cycle or take public transport to work after the Royal Free Hospital cut the number of parking passes it issues and increased the price.
Nurses working nights must now find £15 a month to park at night – formerly free – while senior doctors below consultant grade and managers will lose their parking rights unless they have two young children or secure a special exemption.
Hospital bosses say the changes have been forced on them by Camden Council in return for planning consent and by Government policies designed to reduce reliance on cars.
But the move has proved unpopular with nurses working night shifts with no way of getting to work by public transport.
It prompted questions from the dean of the Royal Free Medical School, Humphrey Hodgson, at a board meeting in October.
Trust chief executive Andrew Way told him: “If you are worried that if a surgeon is needed in theatre and he arrives late and parks illegally he’ll get a ticket, then the answer is yes, he probably will.”

Paris is still No.1 in the wine world

PARIS, sera toujours Paris, sang the French singer and Hollywood star of the 1940s Maurice Chevalier.
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Give our school kids a sporting chance

DON’T know about you but I hated sport at school. It was all that prancing around in your knickers...
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