On Saturday, local side Coventry City battled to a more-than-deserved 1-1 draw at home to Norwich City to extend their unbeaten start to the new Sky Bet Championship campaign. After Danish forward Mathias Kvistgaarden had put the visitors in front early on, the Sky Blues dominated the vast majority of...
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The universities of Kent and Greenwich will merge into the UK’s first ‘super-university’ from autumn 2026, uniting under the proposed name of London and South East University Group. The move comes amid sector-wide financial pressures, and signifies the drastic measures that UK universities will have to consider in the near...
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On Thursday 12 June 2025, the winners of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction were announced. It marked the 13th awarding of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the second of the Prize for Non-Fiction, in a ceremony hosted by the founding director Kate Mosse. Kate Mosse led a...
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To resign or not to resign, that is the question. A week is a long time in politics, as Harold Wilson’s oft-repeated adage goes, and so it proved for our embattled government, with the resignation of Angela Rayner. The departure of the then Deputy Prime Minister came after an ethics...
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In the final scene of Harold Pinter’s play No Man’s Land, the nostalgic old poet Spooner states to his elderly counterpart Hirst: “No. You are in no man’s land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but which remains forever, icy and silent.” I kept thinking of...
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The University of Warwick’s Dr Hannes Houck and Dr João Monteiro are among the 478 researchers across Europe who have been recognised as part of the European Research Council’s (ERC) Starting Grants Initiative. The €761 million scheme aims to support early-career scientists in their endeavours to pursue original ideas and...
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As summer has well and truly left us and autumn is in full swing (thanks, Great British weather), people have begun to put away their flip-flops and shorts to dig out their hats and scarves and prepare for the seasons ahead. With that change also comes a change in nail...
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Zoe Rae’s recent visit to Bali made me think about the expectations we have for our holidays versus the reality we are met with. Zoe Rae (a social media influencer) visited Indonesia in July 2025 and complained of it not meeting her and her husband’s expectations: “We came to Bali...
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Much is made of the Saudi Arabian entrance to the world boxing. The critiques are loud and numerous. Boxing never known to weigh human rights heavily has enthusiastically embraced Turki Al-Sheikh. Like its entrance into golf, football and tennis, many accuse the kingdom of using boxing as a means to...
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On May 6 2025, India embarked on ‘Operation Sindoor’, targeting nine different areas of Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, in retaliation for the alleged Pakistani militant attack on Pahalgam, India-administered Kashmir, which killed 26 people. The overnight operation resulted in shockwaves being sent through Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, with the explosions...
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A flag is a symbol, and symbols are far more powerful than words. One symbol can generate a dozen different meanings depending on who you ask. The flags of England and the United Kingdom are no exception. When you walk down any high street in an English town at the...
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Watching England qualifiers has increasingly become like a visit to the dentist: slow, painful, probing, and only made better with the knowledge that you might get some long-term benefit. I have actually experienced both last week – a filling, and a visit to Villa Park to see England v Andorra...
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University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) – which works in partnership with Warwick’s Medical School – has been ranked as the third-worst acute NHS trust in England. UHCW ranked above only the Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust (at rank 133) and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn Foundation...
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