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Gillian Duncan

Gillian Duncan

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Gillian studied English-international relations (Hons) in her hometown at the University of Aberdeen before completing a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism at The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. She worked at The Press and Journal in Aberdeen for three years before joining The National as a business reporter in 2010. She left The National after having her first child in 2013, but returned in 2018 as a news reporter. She mainly writes about consumer issues.
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Cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh in 2007. Getty Images
World's 10 worst weather disasters of past 20 years led to 570,000 deaths

Frequency of extreme weather has increased as global temperatures rise, researchers warn

ClimateOctober 31, 2024
Gillian Duncan
3D virtual reconstruction of the Bronze Age site of Al Natah. Photo: Charloux et al
Bronze Age settlement suggests northern Arabia was 'slow' to urbanise

Saudi Arabian settlement dating from 2400-1500BC suggests area was dominated by travelling communities and dotted with walled oases

NewsOctober 30, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Chancellor of the Excheque Rachel Reeves, poses with the traditional red despatch box as she leaves 11 Downing Street to present the government's annual budget to parliament. Getty Images
Chancellor says 'invest, invest, invest' will drive UK growth

Chancellor increases taxes to 'restore stability' of the UK economy

UKOctober 30, 2024
Matthew Davies
Emergency workers rescue people trapped in their homes after floods in Letur, Albacete. AP
Flash floods kill dozens and submerge towns in Spain

Torrential rain has affected vast areas of in the south-east of the country

EuropeOctober 30, 2024
Gillian Duncan
A man walks past the Kuwait Towers shrouded in heavy dust in Kuwait city. EPA
Climate change posing 'record threat' to human health

Every country now faces health and survival challenges due to global warming, says Lancet report

ClimateOctober 30, 2024
Gillian Duncan
CNN has banned commentator Ryan Girdusky who told a Muslim guest 'I hope your beeper doesn't go off'.
CNN bans commentator Ryan Girdusky over remark made to Muslim journalist

Donald Trump has promised mass deportations of illegal immigrants in a second term

USOctober 29, 2024
Ellie Sennett
The facial reconstruction of Ta-Kr-Hb. Photo: Dr Chris Rynn
Facial reconstruction reveals 2,700-year-old Egyptian mummy was Sudanese princess

Measurements suggested she was probably from the sprawling empire of the kingdom of Kush

UKOctober 28, 2024
Gillian Duncan
The Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington, London. Alamy
European embassies request exclusion from UK's private schools VAT raid

German and French ambassadors to UK say their schools should not be taxed

UKOctober 28, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Elon Musk, the owner of X who is supporting Donald Trump, speaks in Pennsylvania to promote early and absentee voting. Getty Images
Spat between UK's Labour and Elon Musk deepens over Harris campaign

Sofia Patel, Labour's head of operations, revealed this week the party is sending almost 100 officials to campaign for the Vice President

UKOctober 18, 2024
Gillian Duncan
The City of London financial district. The departure of non-doms could damage the UK economy, the Adam Smith Institute warns. Reuters
Scrapping non-dom status could cost UK 'tens of thousands of jobs'

Almost a quarter of the country's 22,100 'remittance basis non-doms' will leave, Adam Smith Institute predicts

UKOctober 18, 2024
Gillian Duncan
A boat carrying migrants is escorted by a police vessel in the English Channel off northern France last month. AP
Baby drowns after small boat overturns in English Channel

More than 60 migrants from Iraq, Ian and Eritrea saved after vessel capsizes off French coast

NewsOctober 18, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Firefighters try to tackle a wildfire to the north of Greek capital Athens in 2021. Getty Images
Forest fires cause dramatic surge in global carbon emissions

Blazes fuelled by global warming have led to release of additional 500 million tonnes of carbon a year, says report

ClimateOctober 17, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Migrants arrive at the Port of Dover after being picked up by a UK Border Force vessel in the English Channel. Getty Images
Backlog clear-up could see 62,000 migrants granted asylum in the UK

Home Office reportedly considering reopening some hotels to house asylum seekers

UKOctober 17, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Counter-terrorism police in the UK are investigating whether Russian spies planted an incendiary device on a plane bound for Britain. Getty Images
Did Russian spies plant parcel bomb on plane bound for UK?

UK and German police investigate incendiary devices which caused fires in DHL warehouses

UKOctober 17, 2024
Gillian Duncan
A gold Ferrari outside the Chanel store on Sloane Street, London. About 70,000 wealthy foreigners with non-dom status live in the UK. Getty Images
Super-wealthy expecting tax raid pull £840m in assets out of UK

Most could be persuaded to stay in the UK by the introduction of a tiered tax regime, says think tank

UKOctober 16, 2024
Gillian Duncan
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