23 AUGUST 1975, page 25

Country Life

Dog days Denis Wood 'Through ali the bright severity of noon' This line from 'Summer' in James Thomson's The Seasons (1730), conveys the torrid quality of the breathlessly hot......

Medicine

Where the buck stops John Linklater We hear that a ward in a Colchester hospital is to close due to shortage of nursing staff, that there is a temporary ban on psycho-geriatric......