News in brief January 8

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Rowan Pearce, a third-year Engineering student from the University of Warwick, was discovered dead at his home in Tunbridge Wells at the beginning of the Christmas break after taking his own life. The 21-year-old has been described as a “shining light” by his former school.

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Student Reception, the Graduate School and Student Finance and Funding – all previously located in University House – have been moved to the reception in Senate House, which is situated next to the Arts Centre on central campus. The reception is fully functional and open for business from January 6. There is also no longer a student reception presence in the Rootes Building, so students now have only one central campus reception for all queries including enrolment, examinations and admissions.

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A study of the Financial Times lasting six years has discovered that the more frequently a business is mentioned in the morning’s newspapers, the higher the number of shares that are traded in the company that day. Merve Alanyali, of the Centre for Complexity, and Suzy Moat and Tobias Preis, of Warwick Business School, undertook the study. The team seeks “to provide further insight into the direction and causality of the relationship between financial news and market movements”.

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Plans to build a large solar farm next to Leamington have been approved. The farm is a 25-year development and will contain more than 16,000 panels, covering the equivalent area of eight football pitches. It is to be built on land near Bishops Tachbrook.

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The government has given the final go-ahead to the building of a new station in Kenilworth. The new station will cost £11.3 million to build and work on the area will begin in 2015. It is to open in December 2016. The station will add an extra stop on the Leamington to Coventry line.

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