News Nuggets – 25th of February
This week, Hattie Rowan tackles the News Nuggets. From Student Volunteering Week to Birmingham shisha bars, this is what has happened around campus!
Student Volunteering Week will take place between the 22nd and the 28th of February. It is a week to celebrate how much students contribute to their communities through volunteering. Universities across the Midlands will join forces and count the total number of hours the students spend volunteering during the week. Warwick Volunteers are organizing events such as making craft packs for hospital patients and helping to redecorate a local primary school which was damaged by fire.
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Stage Two of the Aviva Women’s tour will be hosted this June by the Warwickshire County Council in partner with the University of Warwick. The world’s best female cyclists will be tackling the 140 kilometre route which travels from Atherstone to Statford-upon-Avon. The route passes right through the University of Warwick and will finish in Stratford which will be celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death.
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The air inside Birmingham’s shisha bars is so toxic it is reportedly twice as polluted as in Beijing. The air in 12 shisha bars across the city has been found to harbour dangerous levels of carbon monoxide and this air is travelling beyond the bars and into the streets. This puts more people at risk of asthma and lung cancer. Researchers at the University of Birmingham found that carbon monoxide levels in the bars are 9 times higher than in Birmingham’s pubs and restaurants.
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Jim Evans, whose car was reportedly victim to a hit-and-run incident, feels indebted to the anonymous witness who informed the police of the collision. The incident occurred on Queens Road in Leamington on February the 12th and, as the nearest CCTV had been switched off, the police would have no information if it were not for this mysterious stranger. Evans says; “I just wanted to thank them for doing it.”
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Warwickshire police force has been found to be one of the worst in the UK for searching people without reasonable grounds. An inspection of 100 Warwickshire stop and search forms uncovered that in 29 incidents officers did not have just cause to search people. The Home Secretary has thus suspended the police from the national stop and search scheme. The force will be revisited in six months and until then are committed to improving their performance.
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