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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

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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.

Evening Standard

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 Independent UK

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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 Conversation

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

The Guardian - UK

Trinity Hall admissions policy has not changed

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Evening Standard

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

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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

Euronews

Cheap online fake accounts make misinformation a ‘thriving underground market’, study finds

A new Cambridge University index exposes the thriving underground market where fake social media account verifications can be purchased for as little as 8 cents, fueling online manipulation and election interference worldwide.

The Guardian - UK

Half of people recently arrested by Met police may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds

Research by Cambridge University and Met calls for better neurodivergence screening for vulnerable people

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Who is the real James Orr? JD Vance’s ‘British sherpa’ and Reform’s ‘posh-bosh’ charmer

It is hard to miss James Orr — with his slicked-back mane of blond hair, booming voice and all the confidence of a Wykehamist and an Oxford Balliol graduate, he could easily play the quintessential stage Englishman in a stage adaptation of Agatha Christie. A hybrid of academic and ideologue,…

The Guardian - UK

Clive Borrow obituary

Other lives: Amateur Cambridgeshire entertainer who appeared in scores of stage shows, often as a pantomime dame

The Independent UK

Sir Terence English: Surgeon who led first UK’s first heart transplant dies aged 93

Sir Terence English completed the first successful human transplant in 1979

Evening Standard

Surgeon who led UK’s first successful heart transplant operation dies aged 93

Sir Terence English studied mining engineering at university in Johannesburg before deciding to switch to medicine, at Guy’s Hospital in London.

International Business Times UK

Oxford–Cambridge Rail Push Could Send Rents Over £2,100 — and Put 37 Homes on the Chopping Block for £7B Line

The £7 billion East West Rail link between Oxford and Cambridge threatens Bedford's communities, with rental costs soaring beyond £2,100/month and dozens of homes at risk of demolition.

The Guardian - UK

‘Sustainable’ Cambridge busway will cause irreversible ecological harm, inquiry told

Planned route linking Cambourne to Cambridge will go through one of county’s last traditional orchards

The Independent UK

Fed's Cook blasts mortgage fraud allegations against her as 'baseless' in letter to AG Bondi

Lawyers for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook on Monday disputed allegations by a Trump administration official that she committed mortgage fraud, an accusation that President Donald Trump used as a basis for seeking to fire her

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