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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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Overweight women in the Middle East have a higher risk of developing hypertension, Type 2 diabetes and heart disease than women with a lower body mass index. Getty Images
Overweight Middle Eastern women 'face higher risk' of heart disease and diabetes

Across the region more than half of women are obese

HealthOctober 15, 2024
Gillian Duncan
David Cameron with his son Ivan in 2004. Shutterstock
Ex-UK PM joins Oxford research mission to develop treatments for rare diseases

Former PM's son, Ivan, died of a rare disease 15 years ago when he was six years old

HealthOctober 15, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Daron Acemoglu, 2024 Nobel prize winner in Economics, looked into why countries can fail to generate sustainable growth, alongside two colleagues. AP
Turkish economist Daron Acemoglu wins Nobel prize for work on prosperity

MIT researcher and two others praised for study on why countries with poor rule of law and exploitative institutions fail to generate sustainable growth

EuropeOctober 14, 2024
Gillian Duncan
This is the first time corals have been selectively bred to enhance the survival of adult colonies. Photo: Liam Lachs
Coral that withstands heat bred for first time

Improvement only modest compared to expected intensity of future heatwaves, scientists warn

ClimateOctober 14, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Police forensics workers at the scene of an attack at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, in October. Reuters
EU holds talks on listing IRGC as terrorist group

Sweden calls on bloc to proscribe group after accusing Iran of recruiting members of criminal gangs to carry out attacks

EuropeOctober 14, 2024
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Gillian Duncan with her two daughters. Photo: Gillian Duncan
How Labour's mission to tax private schools dashes the dreams of people like me

Our writer explains how the imposition of VAT on school fees will harm her family - and possibly the country too in the long run

UKOctober 11, 2024
Gillian Duncan
A Japanese child sits crying in the rubble of Hiroshima a year after the city was devastated by the world's first atomic bomb attack by the US, on August 6, 1945. Bettmann
Nobel Peace Prize winner says Gaza children in World War-like situation

Nuclear weapons never bring peace, says activist Toshiyuki Mimaki, as he urges Russia and Israel to exercise restraint

EuropeOctober 11, 2024
Gillian Duncan
French police tackle suspected drug dealers in Paris. EPA
Suspected leader of ‘Mocro Mafia’ crime cartel arrested in Paris

'Very big fish' facing extradition to the Netherlands

EuropeOctober 10, 2024
Gillian Duncan
The Amazon could be reaching an irreversible tipping point beyond which it will decline until 'we're just left with scrub', conservationists have warned. WWF
Amazon rainforest 'could turn to scrub' in climate tipping point

Global wildlife populations have fallen by about three quarters over the past five decades, says WWF

ClimateOctober 10, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Researchers found the risk increased for people who had been hospitalised with Covid-19. Getty Images
Covid-19 blamed for increase in heart attacks

Infection may also up the chance of a stroke and explain the rise in cardiovascular disease around the world, say researchers

HealthOctober 09, 2024
Gillian Duncan
A burning warehouse during a wildfire in Agueda, Portugal. Vast blazes blamed on climate change have hit the country in recent years, killing hundreds of people. AFP
World entering 'critical and unpredictable' phase of climate crisis

Scientists say 25 of the 35 'planetary vital signs' are currently sitting at record extremes

ClimateOctober 08, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Mannequins in the window of the Selfridges department store in Oxford Street, central London. Bloomberg
Saudi Arabia's PIF to take 40% stake in Selfridges

Sovereign wealth fund signed a binding agreement for a total buyout of the insolvent Signa Group’s position

BusinessOctober 08, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Nadia Ayoub McCulloch, 51, with her Scottish husband of 20 years, William McCulloch, 62, her 19-year-old son Thomas, and daughter 16-year-old Rebecca. PA
Family fear for mother refused permission to board British evacuation flight from Lebanon

Lebanese citizen Nadia Ayoub McCulloch has been married for 20 years but does not have a UK passport or visa

UKOctober 08, 2024
Gillian Duncan
French maritime police were called to assist after a request for help from passengers on board a migrant boat in the English Channel. AFP
Young child 'trampled to death' in small boat incident off France

Incident came hours after 'several migrants' died trying to make the dangerous crossing

EuropeOctober 05, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Migrants wait to disembark from the Geo Barents rescue ship, operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres, in Livorno port, Italy. Reuters
World's seven wealthiest countries set up police network to tackle trafficking of migrants

G7 plan will establish group of law enforcement officials based in the countries that migrants come from, as well as several transit nations

EuropeOctober 05, 2024
Gillian Duncan
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