West Midlands adults are set to benefit from free AI training as part of the West Midlands Growth Plan, announced on 18 July by Mayor Richard Parker. The initiative has promised an investment of £10 million into an AI Academy, which will equip existing workers with the technical skills required...
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It was late heartbreak for Tottenham Hotspur and new boss Thomas Frank as European champions Paris Saint-Germain overcame a 2-0 deficit to draw level at the last moment, clinching the UEFA Super Cup on penalties in a high intensity encounter in Udine, Italy. Following on from successful European campaigns last...
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BookTok, a subgenre of the social media platform TikTok, “started building on TikTok during the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021.” Although beginning as a social media version of a physical book club, evidence suggests that the literary sphere is beginning to take BookTok more seriously and view it as...
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Labour has recently announced their intention to lower the voting age, giving 16- and 17-year-olds the vote. This will be the first franchise change in the UK since 1969, when Harold Wilson’s government lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. The UK is set to follow other countries that...
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When Squid Game first came out in 2021, it received a lot of positive feedback from fans all over the world, quickly climbing the ladder and joining other shows such as Stranger Things in the Netflix must-sees. In fact, the show garnered around 600 million views before season three. So...
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Welcome to Dread, a tabletop role-playing game involving just one thing: a Jenga tower. The rules are easy to follow: players must pull blocks from the tower when attempting challenging or risky actions. If the tower stays standing, the player survives and continues. If it falls…the player dies. That’s it....
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One of the greatest tennis players the sport has ever seen, and arguably the most iconic alongside her sister Serena, Venus Williams is set for an incredible return to Grand Slam action in the opening round of this year’s US Open, where she has been drawn against the Czech 11th...
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Lucy Gibbons reviews 'hickey', the sophomore album of Royel Otis.
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Parking prices at the University of Warwick’s campus car parks are set to increase on 1 September, with commuters now set to pay £8.50 for a day’s parking. Hourly and daily parking rates on campus will increase by 50p, which means students wishing to park for a day on campus...
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Frank Lampard’s Coventry City continued their unbeaten start to the new campaign with an enthralling 5-3 win away at Derby County on Saturday afternoon. Goals from Bobby Thomas, Haji Wright, Brandon Thomas-Asante, Ephron Mason-Clark, and Victor Torp ensured that the Sky Blues left Pride Park with all three points, building...
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University leaders have been encouraged to engage more seriously with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK amid the party’s continued rise in support. As of 4 August, YouGov polling suggests that 28% of people intend to vote for Reform in the next UK general election – seven percentage points more than Labour,...
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Student summers are strange, liminal periods for some. They’re meant to be a break – a much-needed pause from the academic stress and general university hysteria – but they can feel like more of a glitch in the system rather than a welcome comfort. With no structure, no deadlines, and...
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Blue whale song is becoming less frequent, a six-year-long study has found, as climate breakdown and heatwaves restrict the animal’s food sources. The study, conducted by scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California, found that blue whale vocalisations dropped by nearly 40% over the period of study,...
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