Mr Pelloux called for a law to prevent hospital managers from cutting bed numbers in summer.

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Three cheers for Professor John Zimmerman, who's finally doing some research to benefit Joe Public, and who has invented a device that lets parents sleep in late and put the kids to bed early on those long summer days.

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One summer afternoon in Delhi, as the father lay in bed, his health in rapid decline, Manglik's sister Kalpana visited his bedside to read him a passage she had penned in a biography she was writing about him.

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When guests climb into bed, they find a flannel-covered hot water bottle tucked between the sheets, even in summer.

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Harrogate Hospital said its bed occupancy rate, which is usually about 80% during the summer, had been as high as 95% in recent months.

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