Psychology researchers at the University of Warwick have found hand free mobile phones can severely hinder driver’s visual attention. They found that having a phone conversation whilst driving can add over five metres to the breaking distance of a car travelling at 60 miles and causes almost twice as many...
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Warwick University will award honorary degrees to the ex-President of the General Medical Council Sir Donald Irvine, climate change researcher Rajendra Kumar Pachauri and British Museum Director Robert Neil MacGregor at the Winter Degree ceremonies on the 21st and 22nd of January. Honorary degrees are awarded to distinguished figures as...
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William Grove hates Christmas; it's all James Corden's fault.
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Families, drama, secrets and lies. What more could you want from a television show? Brothers and Sisters is one of my favourite drama series out at the moment. The show started in 2006 and is now on its third series. I only found out about it recently when it came...
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Film criticism has Jonathan Ross. Television criticism has Paul Ross. The historical relationship between the big and the small screen has no better metaphor than the brothers Ross. Television may share genetic material with its sibling, but it has always been the poor relation to its glamorous and successful brother,...
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Ten minutes before the band comes on and it starts, na na na, na na na, na na na… and it’s safe to say we are not at a Sigur Ros concert. The Fratellis are a highly divisive band; despite being despised by large sections of the more fashionable media...
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On a massively cold December evening I took the trek up to Birmingham to see some of the fastest rising stars in the spiraling galaxy of music that is now Belfast: Panama Kings, supporting Dodgy, the one-time Glastonbury crowd-pleasers turned middle-aged booze-rockers, at an unbelievably Baltic Barfly, expecting to be...
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Caitlin Allen befriends Iglu & Hotly ... sorry, Iglu and Hartly. Yes. That.
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Upon entering the back-room of the Kasbah, I was immediately confronted with a whole bunch of crisps, biscuits and plentiful alcohol. Damian Abraham (Pink Eyes) offers us a drink and though he seems aggressive and cold to look at he is really very polite. Feeling pretty stoked to be drinking...
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As a Northern Irishman, I always feel a faint hint of pride when I listen to Snow Patrol or see them gain chart recognition, as, despite their frequent mediocrity, they’ve come from being a fairly terrible student band playing universities up and down the British Isles to become well, massive....
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Welcome to 2009! Population: more of the same, says Sam Kinchin-Smith...
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Warwick Bears, Warwick’s Ultimate Frisbee team, has been around for over 30 years and is getting stronger. With the Indoor season coming to an end this term Warwick Bears have had some impressive performances in the recent national tournaments for both the open and the women’s teams: both teams coming...
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Halina Watts looks at a different portrait of the artist at the Hayward.
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