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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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Metropolitan Police officers on duty in Leicester Square, London. Getty Images
UK government launches crackdown on 'snatch thefts' running at 200 a day

An estimated 78,000 people had their phones or bags stolen in the year to March 24

UKSeptember 03, 2024
Gillian Duncan
A garden area at Fonteyn House, which served as the ambassador of Panama's official residence for decades. Photo: Caudwell & Alex Winship
Ballerina Margot Fonteyn's Knightsbridge mansion for sale at £65m

Dame Margot Fonteyn lived in the property with her husband, Dr Robert Emilio Arias, in the 1950s

UKAugust 25, 2024
Gillian Duncan
British tech billionaire Mike Lynch, 59, was among those who died after the Bayesian sank off Sicily. Shutterstock
Risk-taker Mike Lynch's final challenge came on a yacht that could not defy turbulent seas

Bayesian may have been built to withstand hurricanes but sank on Monday after being hit by a waterspout

EuropeAugust 23, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Undated family handout photo of Hannah and Mike Lynch who died after the luxury yacht Bayesian sank in a storm on Monday whilst moored around half a mile off the coast of Porticello, Sicily. Issue date: Thursday August 22, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story ACCIDENT Italy. Photo credit should read: Family Handout/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
Body of Mike Lynch's daughter Hannah found after yacht sinking

Hannah Lynch, 18, was the final person missing from the sinking of the Bayesian off Sicily

EuropeAugust 23, 2024
Gillian Duncan
The security level has been raised at Nato's air base in Geilenkirchen, near Germany's border with the Netherlands. Reuters
Security stepped up at German Nato base facing 'potential threat'

All staff not essential to missions sent home from Geilenkirchen which hosts Awacs fleet

EuropeAugust 23, 2024
Gillian Duncan
A body is taken back to Porticello harbour in Sicily, having been recovered from the sunken Bayesian yacht. AFP
Mike Lynch's body recovered but 18-year-old daughter still missing

Search goes on for Hannah Lynch, the only person on the yacht still unaccounted for

EuropeAugust 22, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Divers have found five bodies on the sunken boat. Reuters
Five bodies found as divers search sunken superyacht for third day

Luxury boat sank after being struck by a waterspout off coast of Sicily

EuropeAugust 21, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Divers have resumed the search for the missing passengers of a stricken yacht, including British entrepreneur Mike Lynch. Reuters
Search resumes for British tech tycoon after yacht sinks off Sicily coast

British-flagged Bayesian went down after being struck by a waterspout during bad weather

EuropeAugust 20, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Imran Khan, graduate, Pakistan cricketer, political leader and perhaps University of Oxford's next chancellor. AFP
Imran Khan in running to become Oxford's next chancellor

Other applicants include former Conservative leader William Hague and Labour’s former EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson

UKAugust 19, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Emergency teams recover a body after a yacht sank in the early hours of Monday off the coast of Sicily. Reuters
British tech entrepreneur among missing after yacht sinks off Sicily

Rescuers look for Autonomy founder among six missing as waterspout claims one life

EuropeAugust 19, 2024
Gillian Duncan
The moment a Ukrainian strike hits a bridge over the Seym River in the Glushkovo district of western Russia's Kursk region. Reuters
Western rockets used to destroy bridge in Kursk, says Russia

Strike represents the first time the region has been hit by US-made Himars, according to Moscow

EuropeAugust 17, 2024
Gillian Duncan
City of London Police patrol Bishopsgate near their headquarters. Getty Images
Panic on the streets of London - a city with a growing reputation as a hotbed of crime

The stabbing of an 11-year-old Australian tourist at one of the British capital's most recognisable landmarks is the latest blow to its international standing

UKAugust 16, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Zainab Benkura,18, a student at Harris Academy St John's Wood, collects her A-level results in London on August 15. Reuters
Shadow over British universities as overseas students look elsewhere

Rising fees, visa changes and global competition are posing difficult questions for the country's seats of learning

UKAugust 16, 2024
Nicky Harley
A firefighting helicopter drops water in Nea Makri, east of Athens, Greece. Reuters
Wildfires threaten Athens as gale-force winds stoke flames

A woman was found dead in a suburb of the Greek capital

EuropeAugust 13, 2024
Gillian Duncan
A stand at the TEFAF fine arts and antiques fair in Maastricht, in the Netherlands, with volumes of Description de l'Egypte. Photo: Shapero Rare Books
Yours for $255,000, Napoleonic studies that sparked West's obsession with ancient Egypt

When the French Emperor set off on his doomed invasion, he took with him a group of scholars and scientists who catalogued everything from antiquities to animals

UKAugust 09, 2024
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