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DDT, short for dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, was first synthesized in 1874 by German chemist Othmar Zeidler, but it was not until 1939 that Dr Paul...

IT was created with the intention of being a place which was part of its community with an open door policy, however the pandemic meant that a…

Closed since March 2020, only a small number of visitors to inpatients have been allowed into the hospice during the majority of Covid pandemic. 

To her most loyal readers, Fidelma Cook was more than a columnist. She did everything columnists do: she gave her opinions and commented on the news, but in talking about the biggest change in her life – going to live in another country – and admitting to her worries and failures, she also felt like someone you knew well, and worried about. She told her readers what was going on in her life and listened to what was going on in theirs, by email or Twitter (something she took to at first with suspicion and then with passion). The original catalyst for the column, in 2006, was Fidelm...

Writer Melanie Reid (right) paid tribute to her former colleague and friend Fidelma Cook, describing her as 'funny and hilariously snobbish' FUN, feisty and formidable – and the thrower of the “most extravagant parties”. Friends and former colleagues joined Scottish politicians, celebrities and readers in warm tributes to much-loved Herald columnist Fidelma Cook after her death at the age of 71. She had been suffering from lung cancer. Her son Pierce Cook-Anderson said she was admitted to hospital in Moissac, in the south of France on Friday and passed away peacefully on Saturday ...