FIRST MINISTER Nicola Sturgeon may be a dab hand at speaking to the gallery in her day job - but has she been hiding a new talent as a stand-up comic? The SNP leader might want to check exactly what producers of US satirical programme the Daily Show are expecting from her ahead of her appearance on Monday’s show. For the programme’s official website has listed her as a COMEDIAN rather than politician. Sturgeon will become the most senior UK politician to be interviewed by the show’s host, Read more [...]

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Scientists are meant to be scrupulously honest and objective. Acting unethically or misrepresenting information could spell the end of a career. Except, there’s one instance where it’s acceptable for scientists to lie: when fraudulently claiming authorship of a paper. Too often, researchers attach their names to reports when they have contributed nothing at all to the work. The problem gets worse the higher up the academic ladder you go. The “publish or perish” motto of academic careers Read more [...]

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Comments (0) Three Cambridgeshire artists have been short-listed for an international art prize - and their work is being exhibited in a renowned gallery in London.Martin Aveling, Dafila Scott and Paul Hawdon are all showing their work in the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation's Wildlife Artist of the Year exhibition at the Mall Galleries from June 30- July 4.And they are all in the running for David Shepherd Wildlife Foundations' Wildlife Artist of the Year Read more [...]

The “tragic and scandalous” dilapidation of a derelict psychiatric hospital in Wales and a mill in Derbyshire are among the concerns revealed in the latest letters between Prince Charles and government ministers to be published, along with suggestions on how ministers could best use government funds. Two letters to housing ministers sent in 2007 and 2008 also reveal the prince’s concern and detailed knowledge of the issue of affordable rural housing, as well as his well-known dislike of modern Read more [...]

The Hoxne Swan is currently closed. ANL-150529-171357001 There was good news this week for locals who are fighting to save their village pub. The Swan at Hoxne has been closed for over two months and the parish council has just heard that it has been granted permission to have the pub and restaurant, in the centre of the village, registered as a community asset.The designation means that local residents would have Read more [...]

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One of Islamic State’s top recruiters, the Australian Neil Prakash, has been listed for targeted financial sanctions, the foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, has confirmed. The United Nations-regulated financial sanctions make it a criminal offence, punishable by up to 10 years in jail, to offer any form of material support to those suspected of terrorist activity. The formerly Melbourne-based Prakash now goes by the name Abu Khaled al-Cambodi and is believed to be fighting with Isis in Syria. “Prakash Read more [...]