HEALTH bosses were under fire last night for spending almost £270,000 on hiring 10 foreign GPs to fly in and cover evening and weekend shifts. The doctors came from Poland and Germany to treat patients in Merseyside. Their sky-high wage air jordan melo 1.5bill was revealed after an investigation showed that more than 50 of England's primary-care trusts were paying foreign GPs up to £100 an hour to work out-of-hours shifts when regular doctors were unable to provide cover. Campaigners described the spending as "lunacy". Doctors also raised concerns that the foreign GPs could be exhausted by the time they arrived on duty after long flights. Halton and St Helens Primary Care Trust ran up the £267,000 bill – the highest in the country – between 2008 and 2009. During the same period South Western Ambulance Service, which runs out-of-hours cover in Bournemouth, Dorset and Somerset, spent £163,760 on four German GPs. Mark Wallace, campaignAir Jordan 20 director for the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "It is absolute lunacy to spend huge amounts of taxpayers' money flying in doctors from abroad to cover local practices. It seems we are paying out more and more for less and less when it comes to service." Family GP Rob Barnett, secretary of Liverpool's local medical committee, yesterday expressed concern about the policy in Halton and St ­Helens. He said: "People who are employing these doctors have a responsibility to ensure they are fit to work. You could get people who have flown for three hours to come in for a shift and start straight away. I would not want to be seen nike air jordan2.5by them." The Health Department said that foreign GPs had been used because Britain was not producing enough doctors. And the local trust said the foreign doctors were paid the same rate as local ones they worked alongside. nike air jordan 3.5 jordan 6 ring air jordan 10.5 Nike Air Jordan 2009 air yeezy

SPECULATION that it is ­looking to buy back shares from the ­Government pushed Royal Bank of Scotland nearly 4 per cent into the black yesterday, helping to lift the FTSE 100 Index through the 4,900-point barrier. UK Financial Instruments, which manages the taxpayers’ RBS stake and their 43 per cent holding in Lloyds Banking Group, had jordan shoes
indicated it could take time to return the investments to the private sector. But a rebound in equity prices means the taxpayer is sitting on a £1billion paper profit on its 70 per cent stake in RBS, which was bailed out to the tune of ­£20billion last autumn. There has been talk of Lloyds tapping shareholders for at least £10billion as both it and RBS look to reduce their reliance on the state-funded APS “toxic” debt insurance scheme. RBS gained 2p to 53¾p, while Lloyds eased ¼p to 107¾p. The FTSE 100 Index climbed 20.57 points to 4916.8, its highest close since early last October. Vodafone Group was 3p upwardly mobile to 134¼p as JP Morgan told clients to switch into telecoms stocks and cash in profitsAir Jordan 22 from the mining sector. Cable & Wireless and BT Group rang up gains of 4p to 148p and 2p to 141½p. The broker said: “The telecom sector offers rock-bottom ­valuations relative to the broader market and displays the highest free cash flow yield among ­European sectors.” Hedge fund manager Man Group topped the blue chip risers list, 13p richer at 280p, as the asset value of its key AHL diversified futures fund jumped 2 per cent over the past week, while investors switched on to ­satellite broadcaster BSkyB, up 3p to 551p, after buy support from Deutsche Bank. Copper producers Kazakhmys, down 35p to 945p, and Antofagasta, 24½p adrift at 789½p, led the mining retreat as worries overwholesale nfl jerseys
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WILDFIRES tore through ­the suburbs of Athens yesterday, causing terror and forcing up to 20,000 people to flee their homes. “It’s a biblical Oakland Raiders jerseys
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A British security guard facing a possible death penalty in Iraq says he is haunted by the faces of the two colleagues he is accused of shooting dead. Former paratrooper Daniel Fitzsimons, 33, is accused of pulling a gun and shooting fellow British private security guard Paul McGuigan, 37, and Australian Darren Hoare, 37, after a drink-fuelled row in a bar inside a compound Air Jordan 6in Baghdad in the early hours of August 9. Fitzsimons, originally from Rochdale, Lancs, and the two other men were all working for the British private security firm ArmorGroup. "I have sat here trying to think through the whys and the wherefores," Fitzsimons told The Guardian newspaper in his first interview since the incident. "I see Paul and Darren's faces every night before I sleep and every morning when I wake up. The only two people who can tell me what happened that night are both dead. All I know is that it went really, really bad, really quickly." Fitzsimons, who gave the interview from his prison cell in the heavily fortified Green Zone, said he had got his job with ArmorGroup after being unemployed for 13 months when he finished a seven-month jail sentence in England. Fitzsimons had Air Jordan 3 pulled a flare gun on children and fired it into the air to scare them off at his home in Middleton, Greater Manchester. He was also convicted of a public order offence over the incident, on April 1 this year, and had yet to be sentenced at Bolton Crown Court. He was already serving a suspended sentence handed down by a court last November for firearms offences after being found in possession of prohibited ammunition - believed to be 5.5mm tapered Nato issue bullets. Family and friends have said Fitzsimons is suffering mental torment from the things he witnessed while serving eight years in the British army, including tours of duty during the Balkans conflict and in Iraq. The job in Iraq was supposed to be a "new start" he told the newspaper. Fitzsimons refused to discuss the specifics of his case, which could see him face the death penalty or life imprisonment under Iraqi law. His lawyers, John Tipple and Nick Wrack, are attempting to have him extradited back to the UK to face any charges. Indianapolis Colts Jerseys
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KEITH Treacy broke his career duck in stunning fashion with a crucial equaliser as Leicester City threatened to secure a shock victory at Bramall Lane. Treacy, who is on loan with Sheffield United from Blackburn Rovers, beat Chris Weale with a thumping 30- yard driveAir Jordan 13 on 66 minutes to haul Kevin Blackwell’s men level . Matty Fryatt continued where he left off last season with his second goal of the new campaign to put Nigel Pearson’s side ahead on 52 minutes. Fryatt, who scored 32 goals to help his side to promotion last season, broke the stalemate by guiding Matt Oakley’s free kick past Mark Bunn to give the visitors a deserved and priceless lead. Pearson’s men dominated from start to finish, with both Fryatt and Oakley causing problems which the Blades had no answers to. Fryatt’s deft touch looked to have earned Pearson’s men all three points until Treacy salvaged an equaliser from nothing to make the visitors regret their wasted chances. Air Jordan 12 Air Jordan 13 Air Jordan 14

HOW much value for money holidaymakers get from their foreign break can have a lot to do with where they change their currency. Travellers can end up with an average seven per cent fewer ­euros or dollars per pound if they fail to search out the best exchange rates in advance. A lot ofTennessee Titans Jerseys
it depends on picking the right place – and the right ­moment – to buy foreign money, ­research shows. Differences between exchange rates may seem deceptively slim but can quickly push up the cost of spending abroad. Travellers will be hit hard in the wallet if they delay too long. Leaving it until they arrive at the airport or train terminal will mean getting the least value for their pounds. Phil McHugh, senior foreign exchange dealer at the trading company Currencies Direct, which did the research, urged canny travellers to seek the best deals. “This survey highlights the great British holiday money rip-off that people face at most airport bureaux de change,” he warned. The worst deal for passengers buying euros is at the Eurostar terminal in London, says Currencies Direct. One pound bought just 1.04 euros at St Pancras on August 7 compared with Currencies Direct’s rate of just under 1.16 euros the same day. The 11 per cent rate difference would leave a family of four more than £100 worse off when applied to the average British couple’s £1,046 per week overseas holiday spending money. When it comes to buying US dollars, the bureaux de change at Gatwick and Stansted offered the poorest value. Travellers nike yeezychanging money at major airports earlier this month got a rate of just 1.52 dollars to the pound compared with 1.65 dollars from the most competitive specialist firm. Holidaymakers who prefer to change their money on the high street chain will find some of the best deals at Marks & Spencer and the Post Office, the research showed. A Eurostar spokeswoman stressed that the St Pancras terminal’s bureau de change was ­operated by a firm that set its own exchange rates. She said: “We are not forcing travellers to change their money at St Pancras. We encourage our travellers to look for best value and that is what we promote on our fares. They should look around and decide where to get their money before they travel.” A London Gatwick Airport spokesman said the airport’s online currency exchange offered very competitive exchange rates. He said: “It is always best to order in ­advance but if you do turn up at the airport we have more than 60 currencies available 24 hours a day. “Part of it is the convenience of turning up at the airport, but it is always best to order in advance.” Getting the best exchange rates is especially vital because of Sterling’s recent fall against both the dollar and Air Jordan 23the euro. One pound yesterday bought about 1.65 dollars compared with more than two dollars at Sterling’s peak last summer. Meanwhile, a pound bought about 1.17 euros compared with its 2008 high point of about 1.30 euros. Sterling has rallied against both currencies compared with its lowest point earlier this year but recession-squeezed Brits are still advised to hunt for the best rates. Michael Jackson Memorial air jordan
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