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  On Sunday 19th May I pedalled on the Scottish Parliament with thousands of other cyclists in order to make the Scottish Government take notice and make cycling accessible and safer for everyone.   In or around 3,000 people pedalled on Sc...

  Mobile phones can be a lethal weapon when it comes to motoring with the part they often play in causing road traffic accidents being well known. However, in Kenya mobiles are in fact being used to try and reduce the death toll arising as a result ...

  I deal with medical negligence cases and quite frequently they are very complicated medically.  However I was appalled to read the 750 ‘should never happen blunders’ that have been published recently.  These blunders illustra...

  While us humans desperately attempt to slow the ravages of time with heady cocktails of pills, superstition and surgery, the common lobster just chillaxes in the deep – never aging, just growing. Their bodies don’t become frail ove...

  The Keogh Review was commissioned in the wake of the PIP breast implant scandal to look at the entire cosmetic industry and how it operates.  However the review has brought to light that this burgeoning industry is seriously under regulated a...

  I can’t help thinking that Labour MP Margaret Hodge must be regretting getting out her car recently without paying attention to what was going on around her. Not only did she open the car door into the path of a cyclist but she was apparentl...

  The long awaited Keogh Review into the cosmetic surgery industry has been published this week.  The review was commissioned in the wake of the PIP scandal but has uncovered a plethora of “dodgy” practices within cosmetic intervent...

  The construction industry is one of the most dangerous industries to work within in the UK. According to the Health and Safety Executive the construction industry accounts for 22 per cent of all fatal injuries to employees and 10 per cent of all r...

  I have just endorsed the Get Britain Cycling Petition created by Kaya Burgess, the Times Journalist who was spurned into action following the death of a colleague while cycling on London’s roads.   The Petition calls on the Prime M...

  I have watched with interest the online debate regarding the recent proposals by Brenda Mitchell of Cycle Law Scotland to introduce strict liability which would transfer of the burden of proof to drivers as opposed to cyclists in collisions involv...

  Road traffic accidents on Scotland’s rural roads are all too common. One of the worst blackspots in Scotland for road traffic accidents is reported to be on the A9 Perth to Inverness route. Although the overall death toll as a result of road...

  Scottish Coal was recently fined £6,000 after pleading guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The breaches lead to the severe injury of an employee, James Hunter in a workplace accident. The accident occurred when a l...