We’ve read the headlines.

We know Dundee University has a deficit of £35 million, that its survival is in question, that an inquest will investigate mis-spending, 700 jobs could be lost.

We know Sheli McCoy, aka Sabre from Gladiators, narrowly missed out on becoming its Rector.

But scratch the surface of the news and the human cost and ripple effect on Dundee becomes clear.

Take the nursery owner certain her business will fold, given half the children in her care have parents employed by the university or Ninewells Hospital.

Like many, she knows the links with our 50-year-old hospital are deep rooted – from the medical school for students to jobs reliant on partnership between the two mainstays of our city.

I spoke to a hugely talented and experienced medic who relocated his whole family from another country to Dundee because the university funded a place for him to work at the hospital.

Now, he has no idea if he’ll have a job in a month, if he should........

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