36 h. ago Cambridge University professor accused of deliberately flunking IQ and memory tests for £1million compensation claim is cleared

Dr Mohamed Atef Hakmi, an orthopaedic surgeon and Cambridge school of medicine lecturer, was left with permanent disabilities and had to give up surgery after suffering a stroke at home in November 2016.

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38 h. ago Cambridge University professor is cleared of faking poor IQ and memory tests for £1million compensation claim after suffering a stroke

Dr Mohamed Atef Hakmi, an orthopaedic surgeon and Cambridge school of medicine lecturer, was left with permanent disabilities and had to give up surgery after suffering a stroke at home in November 2016.

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41 h. ago Cambridge professor cleared of faking poor IQ test in £1m compensation claim

Dr Mohamed Atef Hakmi argued that medical errors had left him with brain damage

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4 d. ago Returned after 115 years... the plate stolen from Cambridge University college by mischievous student

The plate was pilfered from Gonville & Caius College by law and history student Gordon Stewart Wimbush after he joined the university in 1908

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6 d. ago Cambridge bans trans rowers from women's boat race and creates new 'open' division for them to compete in

British Rowing guidelines on gender were voted in by club captains in a ballot set up by the Cambridge University Combined Boat Club (CUCBC) in October.

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1 week ago DNA structures captured in ‘exquisite detail’ using new technique

Scientists are hopeful it will improve understanding of how genes work, what goes wrong in disease, and how to fix it.

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1 week ago ‘Beautiful yet mercurial’ fen orchid brought back from brink of extinction

The orchid’s increasing population in Britain is a bright spot in otherwise ‘stark picture’ for British wild plants, the latest Red List shows.

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1 week ago Gardener paralysed after falling from a ladder trimming a multimillionaire couple's trees loses £1million High Court compensation bid after judge rules he was not their employee

Barry Relph, 59, fell from the step ladder while clearing branches from a conifer overlooking the John and Joanna Meager's tennis court at the couple's £2.3 million Surrey Home.

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2 w. ago If the right really wants free speech in universities, why is it so obsessed with discrediting students? | Jason Okundaye

Conservatives see these institutions as finishing schools for the next generation of leaders – and they won’t cede them to progressive ideasWhen I was a 20-year-old undergraduate student at Cambridge University, I was plastered all over the national press for making a tweet about white people. It has not turned out to be a big deal for my life or career, but at the time it felt monumental: racist hate mail was sent to my college for months; the Conservative MP Bob Blackman called for my prosecution; and tabloid journalists turned up at my home and harassed my mother (it was August, a famously slow news month). I received a lot of support from the student population, alumni and the police (and none from the university, bar a few kind academics), but it cast a shadow over the rest of my time there – I worried about what future I could have or what employer would hire me if they were to Google my name and see I had attracted scandal. Mostly I wondered why this was national news.I found...

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2 w. ago Why scientists say there's 'no point' forking out for a 4K or 8K TV

According to a new study from the University of Cambridge and Meta Reality Labs, there is 'no point' for most people to fork out for a 4K or 8K screen.

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2 w. ago Should you supersize your TV? Scientists say there's 'no point' forking out for a 4K or 8K screen

According to a new study from the University of Cambridge and Meta Reality Labs, there is 'no point' for most people to fork out for a 4K or 8K screen.

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3 w. ago The inventor of Communism 'exaggerated' class divides in Victorian Britain before condemning the 'cruelty' of capitalism, study finds

University of Cambridge historian Emily Chung discovered that Manchester was not nearly as divided into rich and poor enclaves as Engels had suggested.

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3 w. ago Paloma Shemirani’s brother thinks more will die in ‘wild west’ of disinformation

The 23-year-old Cambridge graduate died in July last year after declining cancer treatment on the advice of her conspiracy theorist parents.

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3 w. ago ‘The cars just turn them into mush’: can Britain’s toads be saved from traffic and terrible decline?

Since 1985, the country’s toad population has almost halved, with hundreds of thousands killed on the roads each year. But many people are determined to protect them – including 274 dedicated patrol groupsIt’s 7.30 on a Friday evening, but I’m not heading to the pub or putting on a film. Instead, I’ve caught the train to a market town in Wiltshire, where I’m meeting up with members of Warminster toad patrol. These are volunteers who – like similar groups up and down the country – give up their evenings to protect their local toad population.For the common toad (scientific name Bufo bufo) is becoming increasingly uncommon. A recent study led by amphibian and reptile charity Froglife showed that the UK toad population has almost halved since 1985. To see a creature that has been a stalwart of the British countryside – not to mention a prominent feature of literature and folklore – in decline is “worrying”, says Dr Silviu Petrovan, senior researcher at the University of Cambridge and l...

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3 w. ago Academic influential within Trump administration joins Reform UK as adviser

Cambridge University’s James Orr was described as ‘a brilliant academic, theologian, thinker’ by Reform’s head of policy Zia Yusuf.

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4 w. ago Former Palace owner Textor suffers setback in legal case over claim he owes £72m

Court rules in favour of Iconic on preliminary issueClaim by investor in multi-club group Eagle FootballThe former Crystal Palace owner John Textor has suffered another setback with the UK commercial court ruling he has a case to answer in a $97m (£72m) claim from an investor in his multi-club group, Eagle Football.The dispute stems from Iconic Sport’s $75m purchase three years ago of a 15.7% stake in Eagle, which holds majority stakes in Lyon, Botafogo of Brazil and the rebranded Belgian club RWD Brussels (formerly RWD Molenbeek). Eagle was also the biggest shareholder at Palace until July, when Textor sold his 43% stake to former US ambassador Woody Johnson. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Stormzy made honorary fellow of University of Cambridge college

In June, the 32-year-old received an honorary Doctorate in Law from the university.

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