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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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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Teesside celebrating with Ben Houchen following his re-election as Tees Valley mayor. PA
Downing Street 'shelves plans' for summer general election

Conservative rebels have dropped plot to replace Rishi Sunak

UKMay 06, 2024
Gillian Duncan
A view of Hope Hostel, one of the locations where the asylum seekers from the UK are expected to arrive this summer. AP
Rwanda will not say how many migrants it will take in UK deal

Officials in Britain recently began operation to detain migrants for removal to East Africa

UKMay 05, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Brighton College, a boarding school in Brighton. Photo: Brighton College
Labour to impose sales tax on UK boarding fees as well as private education

Charge could hit private schools' plans to recruit more pupils from abroad to mitgate impact of VAT charge

UKMay 05, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks following Labour candidate for Mayor Richard Parker's victory following the declaration for West Midlands Mayor. Getty Images
Starmer 'determined to win trust' of voters over Israel-Gaza stance

Labour lost some council seats to independents and George Galloway's Workers Party of Britain

UKMay 05, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Balfour Place in Mayfair, central London. Alamy
Qatari PM sells Mayfair mansion block 'within family' for £39 million

Central London prime property in Balfour Place was converted into flats in 1991, The National understands

UKMay 03, 2024
Gillian Duncan
The AstraZeneca research and development plant in Cambridge, UK. Getty Images
Bereaved families drop Covid vaccine case against AstraZeneca

Gareth Eve, husband of former BBC presenter who died after having the shot, is among those who have abandoned plans to sue manufacturer

UKMay 03, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Migrants walk in the water trying to board a smuggler's boat in an attempt to cross the English Channel, on the beach of Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France on April 26, 2024. Five migrants, including a seven-year-old girl, died on April 23, 2024, trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain, local authorities said, just hours after Britain passed a controversial bill to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP)
Labour set to give 100,000 migrants chance to claim asylum in UK

Migrants who arrive in Britain illegally - including in small boats - are currently blocked from applying for asylum

UKMay 02, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Sally Becker, founder of Save a Child, has spoken about her role in the evacuation after the children landed in Italy. PA
'Angel of Mostar' helps evacuate nine injured children from Gaza

Children were suffering from blast injuries and amputations

MENAMay 02, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Queen Anne House in the heart of the Crown Estate in Surrey. Photo: John D Wood & Co
UK's most expensive rental outside London for sale for £16.5m

Try before you buy? Seven-bedroom home on Surrey's exclusive Crown Estate was formerly rented out for £90,000 a month

PropertyMay 02, 2024
Gillian Duncan
The polynya in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Getty Images
Scientists solve mystery of hole in Antarctic sea ice

Open body of water, known as a polynya, stretched to become almost three times the size of Kuwait

ClimateMay 01, 2024
Gillian Duncan
A Deliveroo delivery driver cycles through the centre of Manchester. Reuters
Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats to clamp down on illegal working in UK

Total of 42 per cent of riders stopped over six days last year were found to be working illegally

UKMay 01, 2024
Gillian Duncan
A staff member prepares a room at Hope Hostel, in Rwanda's capital Kigali, which is preparing to receive failed asylum seekers from the UK. AFP
UK removes first asylum seeker to Rwanda in voluntary scheme

Migrant, who reportedly had claim for asylum rejected last year, travelled under project offering $3,750 to leave country

UKMay 01, 2024
Gillian Duncan
The Taforalt cave in Morocco, where a human tooth was unearthed. Wikimedia Commons
Moroccan cave sheds light on Stone Age man's vegetable-rich diet

Discovery challenges idea that cave dwellers were predominantly meat-eaters

MENAApril 30, 2024
Gillian Duncan
From left, Tartu Airport in Estonia and a Finnair passenger plane. Marek Metslaid / Getty Images
Finnair suspends flights to Estonian city due to 'Russian GPS jamming'

Two passenger planes were forced to turn back to Helsinki from Tartu last week

EuropeApril 30, 2024
Gillian Duncan
Labour says its plan is to raise money to address the 'appalling state' of Britain's state schools. PA
Private schools push 8% fee increase before UK's Labour imposes VAT

Keir Starmer's party has vowed to introduce VAT on fees, which parents fear would price their children out of private education

UKApril 29, 2024
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