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Woman guilty of murdering son, 3, in Durham after ‘sadistic cruelty’

Christina Robinson, 30, admitted beating boy with a cane but denied causing fatal brain injury

The Guardian - UK

Vice President Harris Announces M Investment In NC Businesses

VP Kamala Harris allocates M to minority and women-led VC firms in Durham, NC to support underserved small businesses.

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Durham University: A U.K. collegiate system with a difference

Durham University offers international students varied UG and master's progs. 32% of students come from 120 countries outside U.K., incl. India. Colleges provide catered and non-catered accom. and students can take up leadership roles in various societies. U. also helps students find jobs and build entrepreneurial skills. Cost of education…

The Hindu

San Francisco's Can-Kicking on Zoning Reform Could See It Lose All Zoning Powers

Plus: the U.S. Justice Department says zoning restrictions on a church's soup kitchen are likely illegal, more cities pass middle housing reforms, and California gears up for another rent control fight.

Reason

Dominic Cummings joked about trip to countryside before Barnard Castle visit

Covid inquiry sees message from Boris Johnson’s ex-adviser shortly before his much-criticised trip to County Durham

The Guardian - UK

Durham gets lit, the States turn sick and goddesses reign – the week in art

Also, feminist block-printers in Massachusetts and the war’s toll on Gaza’s artists – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Durham transforms into ‘living art gallery’ as Lumiere festival begins

Four-day event presents works by artists including Javier Riera and Ai Weiwei at the cathedral, bridges and other spaces

The Guardian - UK

Benjamin Myers wins 2023 Goldsmiths prize for ‘vital’ novel Cuddy

Award for mould-breaking fiction goes to multi-genre work – ‘part poetry, part electricity’ – retelling the story of Durham Cathedral

The Guardian - UK

Watch as Keir Starmer gives speech on growth plan amid Labour split on ceasefire

Watch as Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech in Durham on Friday 3 November.

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Country diary: Little miracles in a sopping town centre

Market Place, Durham: A downpour has emptied the streets, but some rainy-day specialists – liverworts and ferns – are just fine

The Independent UK

Patrick Vallance said Cummings’ Durham trip ‘clearly against lockdown rules’

The former chief scientist also said he and Professor Sir Chris Whitty felt ‘strong armed’ into appearing at a press conference, but they ‘got out’.

Sports Illustrated

Mike Elko Has the Blue Devils Humming—but Can Duke Keep Him in Durham?

Duke’s surprising success—and Jimbo Fisher’s struggles at Texas A&M—has ignited rumors that Elko will be in demand.

The Conversation

Britain's first Faith Museum is the ideal place to set aside your preconceptions about religion

Britain’s first Faith Museum, which has recently opened in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, faces three problems. First, “religion” is an explosively controversial subject on which it’s almost impossible not to stir up anger. Yet it’s also a subject that a great many modern British people find baffling and laughably irrelevant…

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Country diary: A sense of communal unease on this warm autumn day

Nose’s Point, Durham coast: It’s not just the sunflowers – planted to help seed-eating birds during the ‘hungry gap’ – that makes today feel more like Provence

Ballotpedia

Eight candidates advance from Durham, North Carolina, primary election

The nonpartisan primary in Durham, North Carolina, was on Oct. 10, 2023. Candidates competed to advance to the nonpartisan general scheduled for Nov. 7. The filing deadline to run was on July 21.

Evening Standard

Michael Atherton’s son Josh De Caires in England Lions squad for first time

Josh De Caires, son of former England captain Michael Atherton, has been called up to an England Lions training camp for the first time.

The Independent UK

Parents dismayed by exam decision at Raac-affected school

St Leonard’s Catholic School in Durham has been told it cannot assess its own pupils’ grades at GCSE and A-level.

The Guardian - US

Segregation’s toxic past re-emerges in North Carolina’s lead-poisoned playgrounds

Lead was found in several parks in Durham, North Carolina, a legacy of industrial waste in the city’s Black neighborhoods – and worsening segregation doesn’t help

The Guardian - UK

County Championship 2023 awards: the last word on the season

From Durham’s take on Bazball to Middlesex’s batting nightmare, a look back on a topsy-turvy county campaign

The Independent UK

Secondary school hit by concrete crisis now ‘one of top on list for rebuild’

Parents at St Leonard’s Catholic School in Durham held a demonstration in support of staff as a schools minister visited the site.

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