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We would like to invite veterinary surgeons, veterinary nurses and other members of the practice teams from Glasgow to put their questions to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) at a ‘Question Time’ meeting to be held at the Erskine Bridge Hotel, Glasgow, on Wednesday 19 September.

We have published a list of those veterinary surgeons removed from the RCVS Register of Veterinary Surgeons from 1 June for non-payment of retention fees, who remain off the Register as of 31 July 2012.

Our Preliminary Investigation Committee has referred charges against veterinary surgeon Dr Awuah Ohene-Gyan to the Disciplinary Committee; a date for the hearing will be announced in due course.

The Olympic flame finally arrived in Westminster yesterday accompanied by the Household Cavalry, and passed close to the front door of Belgravia House en route to the Olympic stadium, having already been carried by at least three veterinary surgeons (that we know of!) elsewhere in the UK.

We are seeking individuals, through out nominations process, who might merit one of our awards of Honorary Fellowship or Honorary Associateship.

We celebrated the success of 15 veterinary surgeons passing the RCVS Statutory Examination for Membership with a registration ceremony held here at Belgravia House yesterday.

A Labrador owner from Halifax was the lucky winner in our ‘Find a Vet’ survey prize draw recently.

Professor Sandy Trees was yesterday (12 July 2012) introduced to the House of Lords and became Baron Trees of the Ross in Perth and Kinross.

The first two members of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps (RAVC) to achieve the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice (CertAVP), were presented with their certificates at Belgravia House last week (15 June 2012).

One of our former Council members was amongst the three veterinary surgeons receiving honours in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List recently.