With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Frosty’s Christmas Quiz
Have you been paying attention? PETER FROST has a few tricky questions from his recent Ramblings
1. Is a cross between a grizzly bear and a polar bear called a grolar bear, pizzly bear or grizzlar?
2. Do carnivorous plants grow wild in the British countryside?
3. Is the Orca or killer whale really a whale?
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