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Lauren MacDougall

Registered Audience Editor@lmacdougall93

Lauren MacDougall is The Independent's Registered Audience Editor. She looks after the Independent's newsletter portfolio and organises our virtual event series. Lauren also curates interactive content for our registered and Premium community as well as arranging Ask Me Anything events allowing readers to chat directly to our award-winning journalists.

<p>Measles can be very contagious, so it’s important to seek medical attention</p>

‘Misinformation is rife’: Readers on parents skipping measles vaccines

<p>In the Budget in November, it was announced that the salary at which graduates must begin to repay their plan 2 student loan is being frozen at £29,385 for three years from April 2027</p>

‘We need to rethink university education’: Readers on student loans

<p>The Conservatives have accused Labour of treating motorists ‘like a cash machine’ amid reports that drivers of electric vehicles could face a new pay-per-mile tax in Rachel Reeves’s Budget</p>

Electric Vehicles

The pay-per-mile eVED tax on electric vehicles is coming

<p>Many feel discussions about fertility and birth rates are transforming The Handmaid's Tale from fantasy into fact</p>

Health & Families

France’s ‘offensive’ baby push ignores pressures on women, say readers

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