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Traffic delays happen everywhere around the UK, but for drivers in Swindon, they seem to have become an almost everyday occurrence.

The Cork Fever Hospital served the city and its residents for over two centuries

Cork doctor had crucial role in combating smallpox John Milner Barry, a Cork medical practitioner, was an early vaccination convert in Ireland after he recognised in 1800 that variolation was not effective enough to eradicate smallpox, writes Laurence Geary of UCCs History Department Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St Pancras in London. Jenner had noticed that farm workers who contracted a mild pox disease from livestock, usually from milking infe...

A climate change council sub-committee is no longer operating. Its chairman thinks it was disbanded because of politics – but cabinet member for climate change Keith Williams denies it. He insists putting the work on a more formal and effective footing was behind the move. When the Conservative administration set up a cross-party climate change working group in January 2019 one of its sub-groups – for buildings, industry, economy and planning – was set up and chaired by Labour counc...