Coventry residents are nearly £9,000 worse off on average due to the economy not growing at pre-2010 levels, a study has revealed. The Centre for Cities think tank has published its ‘Cities Outlook 2024’ report, which offers the latest data on UK cities’ housing, income levels, employment, and productivity. The...
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I will never forget 26 September 2021. It was when I took a 13-hour flight, crossed the whole of Eurasia, and left home for the very first time. After a long sleep, I moved from Hong Kong to Britain, from summer to autumn, and from adolescence to adulthood. I had...
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Over half the fraud detected by the Student Loans Company was at franchised higher education providers, an investigation has found. The National Audit Office (NAO), the UK’s public spending watchdog, led an investigation into the fraud and abuses of higher education student loans. The investigation was initiated after the Student...
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Pearson Edexcel is offering up to 125,000 pupils the option to take digital examinations for GCSE English from next year onwards. The exam board hopes to provide a digital option for all subjects by 2030. Sharon Hague, Managing Director for Pearson Schools, said: “This is a pivotal moment for on-screen...
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Angel Sun takes a visit to a 68-year-old Model Railway Club, found hidden in a warehouse by the Coventry Canal Basin. There, Brian Mears, a committee member of the club, gives a tour of what it's like to be involved on a weekly basis, and hopes for it to continue growing in the future.
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Hong Kong, a southern Chinese city smaller than London, once dominated global media with images of mass protests, tear gas, and petrol bombs in 2019. Then, the pandemic hit, protestors were arrested, and civil society was silenced. Under the 24-hour news cycle, the coverage of Hong Kong in Western media...
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Detailed development plans for 2,400 new homes in Coventry have been revealed. On 14 December, Coventry City Council approved the specific details of the development plan for Eastern Green, a residential suburb in west Coventry. There will be ‘extra-care’ accommodation, highway and drainage connections on land south of the A45,...
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In Leamington Spa, a local community organiser has led Operation Snowfall for the fourth year in a row. The initiative aims to collect shoeboxes containing small items for children in need aged between four and 18. Alex Pearson is a local fundraiser and Community Champion for Morrisons in Leamington Spa....
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Edwin Hopkins was sentenced to life in prison in 1997 for the murder of 15-year-old Naomi Smith, whose body was found in a playground near her home in September 1995. DNA evidence and witness statements showed that Hopkins sexually assaulted and murdered Smith, but he never pleaded guilty. An official...
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Dr Radu Cimpeanu, a theoretical mathematician at the University of Warwick, is enhancing the production of cultivated turkey alongside other researchers. The cultivated turkey cells can directly produce animal meat by duplicating turkey meat’s sensory and nutritional profiles. This could really make a difference to people’s eating habits across the...
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A teenager was seriously injured in a suspected hit-and-run on Sky Blue Way in Coventry on 8 December. Sky Blue Way was opened in 1986, named after the theme colour of Coventry City Football Club. Located to the east of Coventry, it is a road connecting the Coventry ring road...
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A study published by the British Statistics Research Department in 2022 found that 8% of the respondents spent Christmas alone. I am one of them. As an international student, I would not take a 14-hour flight with excessive costs to visit my family for less than a month. Everyone disappeared...
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The first batch of British-grown baked beans has been canned following a breakthrough by scientists at the University of Warwick. Most baked beans are made from haricot beans. In 2011, the Warwick Crop Centre started to develop new varieties of haricot beans, including Capulet beans: the first domestically-grown ones that...
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