After leaving school following A-levels, Paul Imrie became a junior reporter on the weekly paper serving his hometown of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire. He spent four years on the district and city desks of the Derby Evening Telegraph, and during this stint studied for, and achieved, the Diploma in Journalism from the now PA-owned Editorial Centre in Hastings.
Following a further four years with the Leicester Mercury, Paul joined VBD in 2004, and has been deputy editor of Veterinary Times, editor of VBJ, and editor of Veterinary Times since 2009. He has also been VBDâs editorial manager since April 2010.
Brian, a three-year-old rescue from Brittany, was adopted and brought to UK, and referred to Northwest Veterinary Specialists after a year for abscess on his leg caused by multiple pellets.
Veterinary surgeons from across the country were involved in implanting the device into Prince Buttons at Rainbow Equine Hospital, in one of only a handful of procedures in donkeys in the world.
Vet and chair of trustees Kit Sturgess attends annual gala to hear of charity work made possible by lottery raising more than ÂŁ1.1 billion for good causes to date.
Full data from 22 practices on hundreds of cases shows what was prescribed and for which conditions, and will help inform groupâs clinical audits and guidelines for antimicrobial use.
Christine Middlemiss says profession must shift culture on food safety roles as she joins delegation asking RCVS council to extend a scheme helping to plug potential OV workforce shortages.
Research project will explore effects of pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction in adult horses and ponies, and hopes to shape future monitoring and decision-making.
In what company describes as a first of its kind, Vetscan Imagyst platform will have âexpert-level AIâ able to analyse for yeast, inflammatory cells and bacteria, delivering fast results.
Ten-year-old Siberian husky Dexter was initially treated for heart base tumour, but later developed rare Budd-Chiari syndrome as it compressed a blood vessel, and had to undergo trans-atrial stenting.
Rob Kelly plans to develop a flexible curriculum with a core focus on enabling veterinary professionals to tailor their development for a lifelong career in general first opinion practice.
Cornerstone Veterinary Clinic, which has a 15-strong team, has transferred into a employee ownership trust, meaning staff are owners and shareholders in the business.
British Veterinary Dental Association is heading to iM3âs ACE facility in the Irish capital for two days focusing on composite use on 28 and 29 July.
âWe are committed to continuing to make IVC Evidensia a better place to work, which means listening and working with our teams to support positive changeâ â Duncan Phillips, UK chief executive.
Failing to have a cat chipped could result in a hefty fine from 10 June 2024, but study for the charity finds 47% of adults in England are not aware of new law.
British Veterinary Orthopaedic Associationâs 60th anniversary autumn conference will probe how understanding of orthopaedics has progressed since the groupâs inception.
Organisers at the North American Veterinary Community (NAVC) say largest global vet CPD and expo will present a âworldâs fair â veterinary styleâ when it is held in the Sunshine State in January.
Regulator, which initially investigated 17 completed acquisitions, is now assessing groupâs offer to address its concerns about 11 formerly independent veterinary businesses.
Francesca Venier and Harry Warwick, of Northwest Veterinary Specialists, are now European specialists in internal medicine, and colleague Lavra Zajc is a European specialist in small animal oncology.
Team at Eastfield Vets in Cleethorpes comes to aid of Staffordshire bull terrior-whippet cross Tilly, with vet Jo Patrick dashing to the scene and receptionist Karen Clark joining her to contact owner for consent for treatment.
Exotics animal specialist Matt Hartley says Kept Animals Bill would have banned keeping of primates as pets and given local authorities greater enforcement powers.
Researchers at the RVC, led by the VetCompass programme, find one in seven boxer dogs is diagnosed with neoplasia each year, with cancer the most common cause of death â at 12.43% of all deaths.