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North East deals of the week: key contracts, investments and acquisitions

Companies featuring in this week's round-up include Vaulkhard Group, Go-Ahead Group, Book Health, Fairstone and Solution Performance Group

Birmingham Post

Thugs launched unprovoked violent attack on Durham University students who were going to ball

Jordan Howey and Stevie Holliday attacked the group of students in Durham city centre

Chronicle Live

Janet Townsend obituary

Other lives: Pioneering feminist geographer who advocated for the inclusion of local people in solutions to environmental problems

The Guardian - UK

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Durham University entrepreneurs scoop prize money for healthcare start-up

Alumni Alex Keith and Olly Page are now looking to grow their business and raise funds in the next six months

Birmingham Post

Geothermal energy could create jobs in deprived areas, MP says

Kieran Mullan has worked with academics from Durham University on the research

Birmingham Post

Durham University win University Challenge for first time in 23 years as Jeremy Paxman says farewell

The university fought off Bristol in the final to win the competition

Chronicle Live

Dame Rosemary Cramp obituary

Archaeologist who led excavations at the twin monastery of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow, home to the Venerable Bede

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University Challenge: Bristol celebrates 'incredible feeling' after making its first ever grand final

Although some University Challenge episodes and records from the 1970s are lost, it is believed that the University of Bristol has never made it to the final - until now

Bristol Post

Durham academics continue marking boycott amid pay dispute and urge bosses to back them 'for sake of students'

Students 'won't have all of their marks' is the warning from academics in Durham who want more done to resolve a long-running industrial dispute

Chronicle Live

Harrowing lives of children sent to work in English mills revealed in first study of kind

Research on remains of 19th-century ‘pauper apprentices’ shows bodies riddled with disease, in study that resonates today

The Guardian - UK

Durham University student, 19, dies of cardiac arrest while on holiday in Paris

Rhea Hourigan, 19, was getting ready for bed when she suddenly collapsed while on holiday in Paris and her devastated family have been unable to see her

Chronicle Live

Leading North East historian and archaeologist Dame Rosemary Cramp dies

Dame Rosemary was the first female professor at Durham University and an expert in Anglo-Saxon history

Chronicle Live

This 'tarantula' in space could teach us the secrets of dark matter

The SuperBIT telescope recently flew to the edge of the atmosphere on a football field-sized balloon. Its first images may start to unveil the true nature of dark matter.

Space

Brits take incredible pictures of 60m-year-old galaxies using huge space balloon

Balloon-based versus space telescopes cost less than launching a large telescope

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Daily Mirror

UK citizenship test 'like a bad pub quiz' - see bizarre facts people expected to know

A study by Durham University warns the Life in the UK citizenship test is littered with errors and out-of-date information as it called for an urgent shake-up

Chronicle Live

UK citizenship test unfit for purpose and 'not making the grade', Durham University report finds

The Government's 'Life in the UK' citizenship test has been branded still "like a bad pub quiz" in a new report by Durham University's Professor Thom Brooks

Chronicle Live

Durham University scientists discover ultramassive black hole '30 billion times the mass of the sun'

Researchers say it is the first black hole every found using a method called gravitational lensing

ABC News

Astronomers detect rare 'ultramassive' black hole, about 33 billion times the mass of the Sun, using gravitational lensing

Astronomers making use of a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing have discovered a black hole about 33 billion times the mass of the Sun.

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The Week

Scientists discover black hole nearly 33 billion times bigger than the Sun

Scientists from Durham University have discovered one of the largest black holes ever detected in the universe, and it’s 32.7 billion times bigger than the Sun.

Daily Mirror

Scientists find ultra massive black hole 33 billion times the mass of the Sun

Scientists from Durham University believe the gargantuan black hole is one of the biggest ever found.

Evening Standard

Scientists discover ultramassive black hole ‘30bn times the mass of the Sun’

It is one of the biggest black holes ever found, scientists say

Wales Online

Ultramassive black hole '33 billion times the mass of the Sun' discovered

Ultramassive black holes are the most massive objects in the universe.

The Independent UK

Scientists discover ultramassive black hole ’30bn times the mass of the Sun’

It is one of the biggest black holes ever found, scientists say.

Chronicle Live

Stalker obsessed with Durham University student bombarded her with unwanted gifts

Lonely Kaichen Ma, 21, left the woman feeling 'powerless and scared' during a campaign of stalking

The Independent UK

Oldest fossils of mysterious animal group are really seaweeds, study suggests

The findings mean Bryozoans are millions of years younger than previously thought.

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