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
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The return home of British beavers
Slowing and taming our British rivers using beavers was never going to be speedy but the pace has surprised PETER FROST
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
IT SEEMS incredible even to me, that it was just over six years ago that I first wrote about the potential of using beavers to calm and slow some British rivers.
In a sense it started in 2008 with some very naughty girls or boys who smuggled a few of the remarkable beasts into a section of the River Otter near the village of Ottery St Mary in Devon.
It was believed to be the first wild and free population of beavers in the English countryside for over 500 years, although various wildlife trusts and other groups had established some enclosed captive beaver populations mostly in Scotland.
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Nature's self-reconstruction is both intriguing and beneficial and as such merits human protection, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
