David Harwood BVetMed, FRCVS summarises the Goat Veterinary Society autumn meeting, which was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Internal medicine specialists at Davies Veterinary Specialists perform emergency treatment on Bella the Labrador retriever after she swallowed open safety pin.

Angie Lloyd-Jones DCR, DMU, concludes this two-part series by discussing the benefits of having a specialist in this field within the practice team, as well as the need for competency as part of undergraduate training and her dream of seeing more people in the role within veterinary workforces.

In the first of a two-part article, sonographer Angie Lloyd-Jones DCR, DMU, explains how she got into this field and the adaptations she faced when making the move from human to veterinary medicine.

Chanticleer casts a weather eye over more topics in his final 2020 column.

Roger Evans closes his Vet Times Dairy Diary for 2020 with a glance at more topics affecting farms.

In his latest ECC Endeavours, Dave Beeston, BVetMed(Hons), PGDip(VCP), MRCVS reflects on the challenges and triumphs of the past few weeks.

With the number of positive cases rising, Olivia Howard, BVM, BVS, MRCVS, uses her own experiences of this issue to offer advice to her veterinary peers.

Nat Scroggie describes her joy at taking part in a triathlon - her first organised event since lockdown began.

It may have first aired 23 years before her birth, but the revival of All Creatures Great and Small has led Nat Scroggie to question whether it still influenced her career.

Dave Beeston reflects on his first month as a resident in the next of his rebranded series, ECC Endeavours.

Chanticleer discusses the "complex knot of uncertainties" that the COVID-19 issue has created in his latest column.

First-year veterinary student and blogger Charlie Jackson discusses how veterinary surgeons are perceived by clients and how often this can be fuelled by media misconceptions.