内容摘要："I said to my mum that I wouldn't judge my sisters but I wasn't going to do it," Mallika tells us. She says having an education has created opportunities for her. "Before, even if you had an education, you wouldn't be expected to carry on with it. You would be thinking of marriage. Now the mindset is so different."

"I said to my mum that I wouldn't judge my sisters but I wasn't going to do it," Mallika tells us. She says having an education has created opportunities for her. "Before, even if you had an education, you wouldn't be expected to carry on with it. You would be thinking of marriage. Now the mindset is so different."

She also argues providing a central hub or phone line to help people navigate and coordinate care would be transformational.She points to a system that has been set up in Cambridgeshire between a local hospice service, NHS 111 and the local ambulance service. It provides people at the end of their life with access to a specialist nurse 24 hours a day, simply by calling the NHS 111 advice line.

"A service like this can make a huge difference, providing equipment, responsive visits as well as telephone advice and signposting to other services," adds Dr Cox.And better training for non-specialist staff is also essential, Dr Cox and Dr Clarke agree."My utopia would be that you don't actually need lots of specialist palliative care services because everybody is so good at supporting patients at the end of life," adds Dr Clarke.

"If we were able to support people in the community properly, it would be better for them and would actually cost the NHS less."She adds: "We need to prioritise this - you only die once."

If last year's general election was all consuming and everywhere, this year's local elections, in truth, are neither.

That is not to denigrate for a moment how much they matter in the places where they are happening, nor the extent to which they will mould the mood of national politics in their aftermath.For the next three days, open floor hearings will take place as part of the Planning Inspectorate's examination of the

The £800m farm would cover 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres) of countryside north of Woodstock, west of Kidlington and west of Botley.It is considered a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project, meaning the application must be considered by the government, not local councils.

, with developer Photo Vault Development Partners saying large-scale solar energy is crucial to meet the UK's climate targets, while local politicians and opponents calling it a cause of concern.Campaigners also want Blenheim Palace, which owns 90% of the land, to use its influence to press for 2% of the project's annual revenue, instead of the proposed 0.2%, to be allocated to benefit local communities.