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Taking a blood sample from a horse is a common veterinary procedure that can provide a lot of important health information. Equine vet Lucinda Ticehurst explains what the procedure involves, why it is done and what the test can potentially tell us

It was her usual morning dog walk. Only this time, a killer was lurking

“One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb,” goes the old proverb. The meaning is simple: if you are going to be punished for a small crime, you may as well commit the bigger one. In the early

Britain is one of the last constitutional monarchies in the world, and the king or queen still plays a ceremonial role in the governance of the state. When Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022, she was bur

Capturing the immediacy of fighting and the writhing bodies of soldiers, as well as keeping narrative clarity, proved enormously difficult for painters depicting battles before the advent of photography. Michael Hall reveals how they rose to the challenge