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4 June 2021
Interview with climate change environmentalist, Paul Lodry
"If nothing is done to reach sustainable development in 2030, we will be in an international apocalyptic era. There is no second earth."
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3 June 2021
Brighton Fringe Review//Alice Hawkins: Suffragette
“Peter Barret certainly gave his great grandmother, Alice Hawkins, the credit she deserves for fighting the courageous battle for women’s rights to vote!”
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1 June 2021
Cli-fi films: An accessible way to talk about climate change
Want to get friends and family thinking about climate change without completely putting them off? Check out these films…
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27 May 2021
Issue of Concern for my Gold Arts Award
I have to write an essay about what concerns me in the art industry. As I have been working with wool for my Gold Arts Award I wanted to study an issue that related to the textile trade and wool.
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26 May 2021
University graduates and the “What Next?" conundrum
From nursery rhymes to higher education, we are constantly advancing to the succeeding stage of our lives, but as you age these steps become more uncertain and fuelled with doubt. Leaving us with the daunting question - what's next?
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24 May 2021
Coronavirus self-isolation support pilot to be trialled by government
The pilots will be trialled across different regions in England, with funding from a £12 million pot to be made available to provide services for those who need to self-isolate in areas with higher rates of coronavirus infections.
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24 May 2021
Trials to extract CO2 from atmosphere begin in UK
Atmosphere-heating carbon dioxide will be sucked from the air using trees, peat, rock chips, and charcoal in a new £30 million nationwide project.
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24 May 2021
Activists urge UK government to end plastic waste exports
Campaigners have called for the proposed Environment Bill, which returns to parliament on 26 May, to be strengthened in order to deal with the ongoing global plastic waste crisis.
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24 May 2021
People You May Know review
“January the 19th, then, you left the house in non-running gear without your smartwatch or your smartphone, almost like… I don’t know… like you didn’t want to be tracked.”
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24 May 2021
Eurovision Final 2021 roundup
As ever, Eurovision was on brand with its unique musical flamboyance that left everyone merry apart from the UK, who were awarded zero points.
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21 May 2021
Petition against higher education arts cuts supported by more than 150,000
More than 157,000 people have signed a petition calling on the educational secretary to stop funding cuts to arts subjects at higher education level.
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21 May 2021
Prince Harry and James Corden are two sides of the same coin
Once representatives of Britishness in its highest and humblest forms respectively, Prince Harry and James Corden have become Americanised and marketed to annoying effect.
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19 May 2021
J.K. Rowling and Hillary Mantel support auction for a global vaccine rollout
The fundraiser aims to raise money to help vaccinate the world against Covid-19 using signed novels and mentoring sessions with star agents, among other lots.
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19 May 2021
An inactive UK government are criticised for the Brexit touring fiasco
The government has been heavily criticised by high profile figures within the music industry over the continued lack of action and clarity over the Brexit touring case.
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19 May 2021
Report finds that 20 companies produce 55% of the world's plastic waste
The Plastic Waste Makers Index has identified 20 companies that produce over half of the world’s single-use plastics, and the banks that fund them.
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17 May 2021 – 31 July 2021
New literary magazine 'the other side of hope' call for submissions
New literary magazine edited by immigrants and refugees, 'the other side of hope' has opened submissions for writers from the same community.
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14 May 2021
How was the New Providence Wharf tower block fire allowed to happen?
A fire broke out at a 19-storey block of flats covered in flammable cladding in east London. Has any progress been made since the Grenfell Tower tragedy almost 4 years ago?