In January 2018, Mesut Özil signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract with Arsenal, becoming the highest paid player in the history of the club. His performances had seemed to warrant the £350,000 a week the club invested in his talents. Özil recorded the most assists and the most chances created of...
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Warwick and Leamington MP Matt Western says he is “keen to visit several student homes as soon as possible and see firsthand the condition of student housing”.
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Tens of thousands of students in Algeria have taken part in protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika after his announcement that he will run for a fifth term in office. The student-led movement was organised under the slogan “not in my name,” following 11 student unions backing Bouteflika in his bid to seek another term in office. Protestors...
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Reece Goodall explains supersymmetry and recent attempts by ATLAS to find the sparticle, a hypothesized class of elementary particle.
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Erotic or ‘dirty’ Young Adult (YA) novels have wreaked havoc and hijinks in classrooms across the planet since the birth of the YA genre. With erotica dating back to ancient Rome with such pieces as the Satyricon and the Phoenician Tale and Daphnis and Chloe of ancient Greek origin, and...
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Stephen Jackson reports on the nanotechnology which gave mice night vision.
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A wind power plant that is being built near the coast of Yorkshire is breaking records: Hornsea One will be the world’s biggest offshore windfarm and will cover 407 square kilometres. It will be about five times bigger in size than the close-by city of Hull. It will be twice...
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Scottish university leaders and students have expressed their concerns over the Home Office’s post-Brexit visa plans. Although the Home Office intends to allow students from the European Union (EU) to remain in the UK for three years, Scottish degrees are often completed in four years. Worries that Brexit will affect...
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There’s no denying that The Greatest Showman was one of the most popular films of 2018 (and a box office sensation) after its release in December 2017. After three months it reached a total of around £330 million in the box office, after looking as though it was going to...
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Is it possible to have a ‘wrong’ impression of a book? Does it matter if my interpretation is different to that which the author intended? What happens if I don’t like a book universally hailed as a ‘classic’? These are the sorts of unhelpful questions readers tend to ask themselves....
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Rising knife crime in Coventry has led police to undertake Operation Sceptre which will involve weapon searches, sweeps and school visits to warn children about the dangers of carrying knives. Throughout the week, police will work with community members to search for knives hidden in public places. On top of...
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Stephen Jackson explores the impact of sleeping in on our physical health.
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Reece Goodall reviews the first episode in the new series of Midsummer Murders, The Ghosts of Causton Abbey
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