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I’m a wheelchair user and these are the best accessible hotels in the UK

From an award-winning retreat in North Yorkshire to a secluded stay with views of the Snowdonia National Park, our expert picks her favourite accessible hotel rooms

The Independent UK

New NHS organ preservation techniques could lead to hundreds more transplants in England

Should the pilot prove successful, it would pave the way for the world's first national network dedicated to reconditioning organs

The Independent UK

Should older people be 2nd-class voters?

Why do young people everywhere seem disenchanted with govt? A 2021 OECD survey shows only 37% in 18-29 age group trust govt, as against 46% in 50+ cohort. In S Korea, the gap widens to 17 percentage points. In Ireland, it’s 38 points. Zoom out of this rich nations’ club,…

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BBC loses Boat Race broadcast rights after nearly a century

Channel 4 wins the television rights while Times Radio will also carry coverage, as the BBC steps away from the historic Oxford-Cambridge race

Evening Standard

Review finds evidence of ‘fatal physical harm’ caused to boy who had surgery

Nine-year-old Jack Moate was operated on by Kuldeep Stohr at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge in 2015.

Evening Standard

What makes a city beautiful? Here’s what ratings of thousands of urban landscapes reveal

Some buildings leave such an impression when you visit them that they can be forever summoned to the mind’s eye. For us, these include the soaring dome of St Paul’s cathedral in London, the Georgian grandeur of Royal Crescent in Bath, and the ascending towers and pinnacles of King’s College…

The Conversation

Exclusive: Callosum, a startup looking to break Nvidia’s stranglehold on AI workloads, raises $10.25 million in new funding

Callosum, founded by two Cambridge-trained neuroscientists and inspired in part by the brain, has a system for optimizing workloads across different types of chips.

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Moment stranger stabs Saudi Arabian student in neck is shown at murder trial

Video shows Mohammed Algasim, 20, sitting on a low wall outside student accommodation near Cambridge's train station before he was stabbed

Evening Standard

CCTV footage played to jurors shows moment Saudi Arabian student was stabbed

Chas Corrigan, 22, denies murdering Mohammed Algasim at Cambridge Crown Court.

Evening Standard

Cambridge University museum set to return Benin bronzes to Nigeria

A Cambridge University museum will shortly return around 100 Benin bronzes to Nigeria as part of a major restitution initiative, the UK's weekly newspaper the Observer has reported.

Radio France Internationale

AstraZeneca CEO hails NHS drug price deal but keeps pause on £200m UK investment

Pascal Soriot suggests UK-US agreement will not be enough to revive plan to expand Cambridge site

The Guardian - UK

Viking Age mass grave unearthed near Cambridge with remains of ‘extremely tall’ man who had brain surgery

The individual was somewhere between 17 and 24 years old, with evidence indicating he may have had a hormone-related growth condition

The Independent UK

Viking Age mass grave holds mysterious mix of dismembered human remains and complete skeletons, including a 'giant' who'd had brain surgery

Archaeologists and student excavators uncovered a Viking Age pit full of dismembered remains near Cambridge, England.

LiveScience

Cambridge students on training dig help unearth possible execution pit

The burial pit contained the remains of 10 people based on the number of skulls, including at least one decapitation.

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The Independent UK

Students unearth remains in possible execution pit on training dig

The discovery was made at Wandlebury Country Park near Cambridge

The Independent UK

Alex Astridge hopes to inspire younger generation representing UAE at Olympics

Astridge was born in Cambridge but moved to the UAE as a baby.

The Conversation

Friday essay: weirdly old-fashioned and wildly uneven – David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest at 30

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a title out of Hamlet, a Simpsons-sky dustjacket, hundreds of endnotes, and ran to almost 1,100 pages. Infinite Jest occupied much of that cold February…

The Guardian - UK

Secret love letter shows softer side of Cambridge spy ring’s alleged fifth man

Intimate correspondence between John Cairncross and Gloria Barraclough features in National Archives exhibition

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Trinity Hall admissions policy has not changed

Letter: The Cambridge college remains committed to widening participation, says its master, Mary Hockaday

Evening Standard

Raspberry Pi faces uncertainty over memory shortages due to AI boom

The Cambridge-based business saw shares slide in early trading as it pointed towards ‘limited visibility’ regarding future trading.

The Guardian - UK

No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better

Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the back foot, says professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, Lee Elliot Major

The Guardian - UK

Cambridge college to target elite private schools for student recruitment

Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students

The Guardian - UK

‘Oh my gosh, they’re all from London and Cambridge’: York University’s northerners fight back

Lucy Morville, from Burnley, thought most students would be from the north and felt ‘culture shock’ surrounded by southerners

Reason

Unlearning History

Three decades after Massachusetts ended its disastrous experiment with rent control, voters are considering giving the policy another shot.

The Independent UK

‘It’s pretty gnarly’: Behind the scenes at Trial Eights, the battle for selection at the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

EXCLUSIVE: Behind the famous annual race is months of preparation, cold, dark mornings on the freezing water, and an internal battle for selection almost as nerve-wracking as the big day itself, as Flo Clifford finds out

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