A GP performing locum work at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital was accused of doing so while signed off sick. A court heard that Dr Lucy Dawson pocketed £7,840 for a total of ten shifts.
Some pupils in Wiltshire who are truanting are being escorted to school by police officers. The force, in partnership with the council and local schools, began the initiative in Amesbury recently.
The chief constable of Wiltshire Police gave his response to figures that his staff do not think the force has enough personnel to do the job properly.
A photograph has been circulated of a man Devon and Cornwall police believe caused £200 of damage on a bus. The pictures show a young man travelling on the bus in Paignton on a brief journey.
St Agnes Parish Council is to keep open toilets at Porthtowan and at Trevaunance Cove but said it would close those in Trelawney car park, saving £8,494.
Devon and Cornwall is one of three police forces that may not be able to provide a “sufficiently efficient or effective service” in the future.
Unauthorised building work to toilets at a Helston pub has caused town councillors to turn their noses up.
More than a third of practices in Cornwall and about 20 per cent in Devon were affected by GPs taking industrial action. Doctors on Thursday protested against having to work longer before receiving their pensions.
The Rodbourne Cheney School has fully reopened after lead thefts caused structural damage. Thieves had struck from the Swindon school’s roof.
Thousands of NHS staff in South West England could be soon working longer hours for less pay according to a leaked document.