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Let’s put ‘First Aid’ first

Over the Easter holidays I completed an Essential First Aid – All Ages course with St. John’s Ambulance. It has been something I have wanted to do for a very long time. The importance of First Aid speaks for itself really. So I have to ask myself: after eighteen years...
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By , May. 3, 2013

Rate your bookshelf

Are you a fan of teen-fiction, a lover of literary classics, or a sci-fi sentimentalist? 5 writers assess their own bookshelves and find out what dark, book-related secrets they harbour
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By , May. 3, 2013

Store Wars

Leamington has found itself at the centre of a retail war this year with the opening of the UK’s largest Morrison’s on Old Warwick Road. The town’s already vast selection of food retailers has evoked concern for some residents about how this competition will affect prices, and whether this will...
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By , May. 3, 2013

Renewable bioplastics go under the microscope

A team from the University of Warwick, in conjunction with company Biome Bioplastics, is studying how 100 percent renewable bioplastics could be created. The research team is hoping to do this by deriving chemicals from the breakdown of a waste product from paper manufacture, called lignin. This should not only...
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By , May. 3, 2013