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Tories spent only a quarter of money allocated to levelling up
The Conservatives spent only a quarter of the money they allocated to levelling up, according to freedom of information requests that underline how Michael Gove’s flagship regional spending scheme failed to live up to expectations.
The previous government allocated £10.6bn to the three main schemes under the levelling up programme, …
Starwatch: Ursids meteor shower to appear in largely dark sky
Another week, another meteor shower. Last week it was the highly reliable Geminids meteor shower, this week it is the lesser shower known as the Ursids. Whereas the Geminids were disrupted by the presence of a full moon, the Ursids will appear in a largely dark sky. Only after midnight …
‘Something horrible’: Somerset pit reveals bronze age cannibalism
A collection of human bones discovered 50 years ago in a Somerset pit are evidence of the bloodiest known massacre in British prehistory – and of bronze age cannibalism, archaeologists say.
At least 37 men, women and children were killed at some point between 2200BC and 2000BC, with their …
‘If we don’t get off this mountain I don’t think I can do another night’: climber Fay Manners on surviving the odds
Fay Manners was 6,400m up a mountain in the Indian Himalayas when she heard her climbing partner, Michelle Dvorak, scream from below. The rope attaching her to the rock face snapped tight, but held firm. Fearing something terrible had happened, Manners looked down with dread – but thankfully Dvorak was …
‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis
The email arrived out of the blue: it was the university code of conduct team. Albert, a 19-year-old undergraduate English student, scanned the content, stunned. He had been accused of using artificial intelligence to complete a piece of assessed work. If he did not attend a hearing to address the …
Ben Elton: ‘I fancied Olivia Newton-John. It’s alright to say that about a third cousin, right?’
Of all the things you’ve written, what gets quoted at you the most?
It’d be something from my three series of Blackadder [2-4]. That’s the one that really entered the culture. I think the thing I’m proudest of is how both Young Ones and Blackadder genuinely seeped into …
How seeing his own brain inspired doctor to find a method to rapidly detect delirium
As a student, the neurologist Greg Scott had very little interest in following a career in medicine. Computing was the focus of his studies.
Then one day he suffered a grand mal seizure. Also called a tonic-clonic seizure, it causes a loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions.
“It came …
Trump eyes privatizing United States Postal Service during second term
Geminid meteor shower to light up UK skies this weekend
One of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year is expected to light up the night sky this weekend.
The Geminid meteor shower, which is called a meteor storm because of its intensity, is expected to peak some time between Saturday and Sunday.
It has been known to produce …