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An emergency action plan to reduce bed blocking and ease record A&E waiting times will not take affect in time to ease the looming crisis this winter, doctors warn.

Professor Jane Monckton Smith, in a life-saving book, explains why there are patterns of escalating male violence that too often end in tragedy

Updated: July 11, 2021, 9:38 am © Supplied They don’t come more paradoxical than Dr Marie Joseph Jean Houbert. Born to sugar plantation-owning French aristocrats of Indian Ocean island Mauritius, he would choose instead to live his days as a recluse by the North Sea in Bridge of Don. A political futurist, he predicted the fall of ‘Fortress Europe’ via Middle-Eastern and African migration decades before it ever looked likely, yet lived without modern conveniences, having never owned a microwave oven. Dr Houbert. A private person by choice most of the time, he went for curries with peers...

ROAD TEST: Land Rover Defender supreme off road and on road © Supplied by Land Rover The Land Rover Defender is a car that has a weight of expectations on its shoulders. Its job is to replace the original Defender – which kept virtually the same design for almost 70 years and is perhaps the most beloved off roader of all time. The all new Defender was launched last year and I drove it then at Land Rover’s off road centre in Dunkeld. I spent a day crawling over rocks, wading through streams, crossing hillsides and exploring forests. Going off road That was more than enough to realise the ...

MARY-JANE DUNCAN: A moment that goes straight to the blunder board By Mary-Jane Duncan © DCT Media As I type this, an 18-year-old Emma Raducanu, has just qualified for the fourth round at Wimbledon.  While waiting on her A Level results. Simultaneously, my oldest two are standing in the kitchen voicing their protests over the lack of kettle and demanding to know how they are going to make themselves a cup of tea. I’m not sure I have a sigh loud enough in my repertoire for this proud parenting moment. Don’t get me wrong, I am exceptionally proud of my kids and will fight for them ...