Paterson

It blooms as the pages turn, like a prickly flower, beginning with the story of the corpulent, nerdy, sci-fi-obsessed title character growing up in Paterson, N.J.

"Royal Mail is a business that has historically found it difficult to grow revenues by more than costs," says Alex Paterson, an analyst at Peel Hunt stockbrokers.

Grant Paterson, from East Kilbride, was on a break in Rome when the B&B in the city's Monteverde area collapsed on 24 March.

An inquest, which began in October, is examining the deaths of 62 cancer patients who were treated by Paterson over a 14-year period, at NHS and private hospitals in the West Midlands.

Grant Paterson, 54, was rescued on Saturday morning from the rubble of a three-storey building in the Monteverde area of the Italian capital.