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Lauren Gilmour

Lauren Gilmour is a PA news reporter based in Scotland covering a wide range of subjects including courts and inquiries to breaking news. She previously worked for the Glasgow Times.

<p>Plastic pollution has reached critical levels</p>

Scientists discover proteins that can eat plastic

College staff have been offered a ‘final’ pay increase of £5000 over three years in a bid to bring a longstanding dispute to a close (Jane Barlow/PA)

‘Final’ pay offer put to college staff in long-running dispute

Workers at Chivas Brothers sites across Scotland are to go on strike (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Hundreds of whisky workers to go on strike during busy festive period

Tian Tian and Yang Guang have lived at Edinburgh Zoo since 2011 (PA)

Britain’s only giant pandas to leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12-year stay