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James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning images of bright auroras on Jupiter (video)

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared eyes toward Jupiter, capturing auroras hundreds of times brighter than those on Earth glowing on the gas giant's poles.

Space

Archaeologists discover ‘significant’ permanent side-effect of smoking

Archaeologists say tobacco consumption leaves a metabolic record that can be studied for centuries

The Independent UK

University of Leicester facing ‘major incident’ over crumbling buildings

Teaching events being relocated while urgent repairs carried out on 1970s structures with degraded concrete

The Guardian - UK

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Steve Coogan facing libel claim over ‘weasel-like’ portrayal in Richard III film

Richard Taylor, formerly deputy registrar of the University of Leicester, is bringing legal action over a portrayal of him in the film The Lost King.

Evening Standard

New Saturn images show a change of seasons

The new observations have also provided a last glimpse of Saturn’s north pole, before it begins to recede into the darkness of polar winter.

The Independent UK

Thousands of people in UK out of work due to long Covid

Nisreen Alwan, professor of public health at the University of Southampton and Daniel Ayoubkhani, principal statistician at the Office for National Statistics and the University of Leicester explain how the latest statistics on the Covid pandemic and jobs suggest long Covid could be causing high levels of economic inactivity.

The Week

Roman shrine uncovered beneath graveyard in central England

Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be a Roman shrine beneath a former graveyard in the grounds of a cathedral in central England

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Bacteria-killing viruses could combat antibiotic resistance, says UK scientist

Prof Martha Clokie says phages could become routine for some conditions

The Guardian - UK

2023 Leicestershire Innovation Festival starts on Monday February 6 – and there is still time to sign up

Fortnight includes biggest LeicestershireLive Innovation Awards yet at the National Space Centre on February 16

Birmingham Post

Food banks and second-hand dancing shoes – the struggles that led to the strikes

Workers from across the various sectors taking part in Wednesday’s walkout have said this was the ‘bitter end’ of the dispute with the government.

The Independent UK

'Under-used' offices could become 268-bed student scheme

Develoer says plans would cause no harm to the historic significance of the Grade II-listed Regent House, in Leicester

Birmingham Post

Innovate UK boss Indro Mukerjee to deliver keynote speech at 2023 LeicestershireLive Innovation Awards

Awards which take place at the National Space Centre on February 16

Birmingham Post

‘There’s been a fundamental change in our planet’: hunt on for spot to mark the start of the Anthropocene epoch

Scientists are to pick a location that sums up the current Anthropocene epoch when Homo sapiens made its mark

The Guardian - UK

Rutland Roman villa: how we found one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK

The discovery of a previously unknown Roman villa in rural Rutland during the 2020 lockdown was one of the archaeological stories of the year.

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Enter the 2023 LeicestershireLive Innovation Awards now

Previous winners used the awards to raise their profile, attract employees, and develop national and international success

The Independent UK

Sally Hawkins says women being dismissed as emotional ‘frustrates the f*** out of me’

The actor stars in ‘The Lost King’

Birmingham Post

Key player in global space race moves to Leicester

Team is working on fission power to help us reach previously inaccessible regions of space

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University of Leicester alumni raise over £36,000 for West Ham supporter with MS

A group of former University of Leicester students have raised more than £36,000 for their West Ham United supporting friend, Joe Martin, who suffers with multiple sclerosis

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The Independent UK

Researchers find new way to extract high-purity silver from used solar panels

The process retrieves more than 90% of the silver and aluminium in 10 minutes, experts suggest.

The Guardian - UK

Royal row erupts over Steve Coogan film about Richard III

Archaeologists fear they are ‘villains of the piece’ in movie, co-written by Coogan and directed by Stephen Frears, about search for British monarch

Birmingham Post

Deadline for 2022 LeicestershireLive Business Awards extended to Tuesday, August 30

Entrants have been given the whole of the August Bank Holiday to get their nominations in

The Guardian - UK

‘I had goosebumps!’ – the finder of Richard III’s remains in a car park is celebrated in a Steve Coogan film

As the astonishing story of the king’s bones being discovered in Leicester hits the screen, we meet the sleuth whose extraordinary tenacity – despite chronic illness – located the monarch

Daily Mirror

Mother-in-law says relative who threw eggs at Baroness Thatcher statue 'childish'

Statue costing £300,000 was sited in former prime minister's home town of Grantham over fears it could become focus of "far-left" if placed in Parliamentary Square, Westminster

Birmingham Post

The latest East Midlands movers and shakers

Changes at Howard Ward Associates, Parry Creative, Geldards, Pattersons law and others

The Independent UK

Leicester University ‘does not condone’ staff member egging Thatcher statue

Memorial to former Tory PM was splattered within hours of unveiling and has been booed by passing drivers

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