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The UK’s booming creative industries could employ even more people – if they attract fresh international investment

The UK’s creative industries are an economic success story, contributing £124.6 billion to the country’s economy in 2022 – around 6% of the total. These industries, which include film, TV and publishing, grew by more than 50% between 2010 and 2022.

The Conversation

Uni staff facing job losses against spirit of legislation, union claims

Union urges university to convert casual staff to ongoing roles.

Newcastle Herald

Stressed bees make pessimistic choices, research shows

Scientists say their study shows how animals are displaying a similar response to how humans react to a set-back

The Independent UK

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James Webb Space Telescope finds a shock near supermassive black hole (image)

By examining a distant supermassive black hole, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found a shocking link between jets and dust around these cosmic titans.

Space

E-scooters and e-bikes here to stay

Letters and Short Takes: Saturday, July 20, 2024

Newcastle Herald

UK universities urged to end drugs zero tolerance and focus on harm reduction

Report proposing new approach welcomed by mother of Jeni Larmour, who died after taking alcohol and ketamine

The Guardian - UK

Labour is fixated on winning back the ‘red wall’. The only problem? It doesn’t exist

The party’s electoral strategy is based on an outdated stereotype of the northern voter – and it will come back to haunt Starmer, says Alex Niven of Newcastle University

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‘There are people in tents writing dissertations’: UK reaches for scale of US campus protests

Pro-Palestine protesters hope encampments at universities will contribute to an ‘international student revolt’

The Guardian - UK

Pro-Palestinian Encampments Set Up At UK Universities

Pro-Palestinian student encampments at UK universities protest partnerships with defense companies supplying Israel.

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‘Little by little, the truth is being discovered’: the archive rescuing China’s forbidden films

A golden era of Chinese cinema was brought to a halt by Xi Jinping’s regime, but now, thousands of miles away, a rich world of banned documentaries and dramas is being studied and celebrated

The Guardian - UK

Man died from allergic reaction to nuts in pizza he ordered from Deliveroo, inquest rules

James Atkinson, 23, died after eating less than a slice of takeaway pizza he didn’t realise contained nuts

The Independent UK

Is Classic Christmas Dinner Healthy? Researchers Say Some Side Dishes Offer Significant Health Benefits

Researchers say traditional Christmas dinners can be healthy, particularly since some side dishes have significant health benefits.

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The Guardian - UK

Do electric cars pose a greater fire risk than petrol or diesel vehicles?

The first in a series exploring the myths and realities surrounding EVs

The Guardian - UK

The mystery of the garden of memories at the Angel of the North

Folded and unfolded notes, straggles of ribbon, artificial flowers – a professor is searching for the roots of the phenomenon

The Independent UK

Storm Babet has already caused changes to coastline, experts say

Researchers from Newcastle University are bracing the elements to document how the surging seas have eroded the landscape.

The Independent UK

Man accused of ‘selfish’ behaviour after proposing to girlfriend at her graduation

The graduate’s decision has been lambasted as ‘selfish’, with critics accusing him of making his partner’s life achievement ‘about him’

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The Independent UK

‘Just awful’: Man accused of ‘selfish’ behaviour after proposing to girlfriend at their graduation

The graduate’s decision has been lambasted as ‘selfish’, with critics accusing him of making his partner’s life achievement ‘about him’

Daily Record

Tributes paid to 'popular and much-loved' student who tragically died after falling from uni building

The body of Waleed Zahid, 23, was found near Newcastle University's 55 Degrees North building in the city centre.

Chronicle Live

Waleed Zahid was a fifth year medical student at Newcastle University

Chronicle Live

Wind turbine installation method off Northumberland coast has 'no negative impacts' on presence of dolphins - study finds

Research from Newcastle University in the journal Marine Biology has analysed the impact on dolphins and porpoises from the installation of wind turbines off the coast of Blyth in Northumberland

Chronicle Live

Sunderland woman says breast cancer left her 'confidence in pieces' as she takes part in new Newcastle University £250,000 study

Kelly Ross is advising a Newcastle University team running a £250,000 breast cancer support project

Chronicle Live

Newcastle University gets highest ever position in QS World University rankings

Newcastle University discovered it has reached 110th in the world on day three of five of industrial action

Space

Is dark matter fuzzy? Ultracold state of matter sheds light on dark matter candidate

An exotic, ultracold state of matter on Earth is helping scientists study the behavior of "fuzzy" dark matter.

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