Telling comment from a banker here in Zurich. I asked him, "What does the UK sell next"
He didn't even hesitate.
"O that's easy, every investment house knows that - the NHS, worth a fortune. We all want a piece of that deal"
"Break it up, packages of hospitals, regional companies, specialty services sold to the patient on an as needed basis. Bring in the big US companies and the European insurance companies and Mutuality groups. Everyone is looking forward to it."
Officers conducting enquiries on behalf of HM Coroner of Dorset into two non-suspicious deaths in the Bridport area are appealing for information from the public.
At 10.11am on Tuesday 25 January 2022 Dorset Police received a report of two people, a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man, having been found...
Officers investigating a fatal road traffic collision near Dorchester are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.
The incident, which happened on Coombe Road in Winterbourne Steepleton, was reported to police at 7.23pm on Sunday 30 May 2021. It involved a black Harley Davidson motorcycle and a...
Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward as they investigate a serious injury road traffic collision near Dorchester.
Dorset Police received a report at 10.26am on Thursday 6 April 2023 of a single vehicle collision on the Old Sherborne Road near to Cerne Abbas,...
Update:
Officers searching for teenage girl Kari Ranson, who was reported missing having last been seen in the Dorchester area, are pleased to confirm she has been located.
Kari was reported missing having last been seen on the afternoon of Friday 26 May 2023.
Following searches and enquiries by officers, she has...
Officers are investigating a serious collision near Shaftesbury and are appealing for any witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward.
At approximately 12.45pm on Thursday 6 July 2023 a collision occurred involving a white Ford KA and a silver Suzuki Swift on the A30 Sherborne Causeway at the...
An angry member of the public has confronted Health Secretary Steve Barclay in the street, demanding to know why the government has done "bugger all" about lengthy waits for ambulances.
The Cabinet minister was speaking to media outside Moorfields Eye Hospital in Old Street, central London, when a woman interrupted...
Officers are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision in Charmouth.
Dorset Police was called at 12.22pm on Saturday 8 July 2023 to reports of a single vehicle collision in Lower Sea Lane involving a silver Vauxhall Corsa.
The ambulance service attended but very sadly the driver, a man aged in...
People who experience a headache for more than four days after having the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab should seek medical attention, the UK's medicines regulator has said.
They should also get help if they have bruising somewhere other than the injection site after a few days, it added.
The Medicines and Healthcare products...
Omicron which is an anagram of 'Moronic' - make of that what you will - has mutated.
The UK Health Security Agency has designated the Omicron variant sub-lineage, known as BA.2, as a variant under investigation - with current case rates very low.
Just 53 sequences of the sub-lineage had been...
