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Prof Simon Hiscock with the Oxford Physic Rose at Sundays event Picture: ED NIX A ‘GLORIOUS’ new pink rose was unveiled as the Oxford Botanic Garden marked its 400th anniversary. Called the Oxford Physic Rose, the pastel-pink flower’s name is a reminder of the university garden’s origins as a place where students were taught about the medicinal properties of plants. Prof Simon Hiscock, director of the Oxford Botanic Garden on Rose Lane, described the new rose as a ‘beauty’. ...

‘People are walking around with really high levels of distress’: Australia’s regional mental health plight Celina Ribeiro Dr Katherine Graham has been a GP in Horsham for 12 years now. It’s a market town in the Wimmera region, about halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide; one of those larger-sized rural towns where people within a two-hour radius come to do the big shop. It’s surrounded by agriculture: cropping, sheep, cattle. There are about 20,000 people in Horsham, ...