by Jen The View From Here Interview: Marina Lewycka ABOUT MARINA LEWYCKA Marina Lewycka is of Ukrainian origin and was born in a British-run refugee camp in northern Germany, after the end of World War II. She grew up in England and studied at Keele University. She has written a number of books of practical advice for carers of the elderly, published by Age Concern England . She lectures in the department...
Weekend nights in Anytown UK, boys and girls roam the town centre between pubs and the kind of nightclubs where they only play chart music. Violence is in the air from drunken blokes (sometimes women too), bouncers and pumped up police. This is the landscape of songs like I Predict a Riot by the Kaiser Chiefs (Leeds): 'Watching the people get lairy, It's not very pretty I tell thee, Walking through...
Protest vote immediately declared void by university union Lecturers voted overwhelmingly to boycott Israeli universities and colleges today. Delegates said Israeli academics were complicit in their government's acts against Palestinians. But as soon as the vote was carried, the leadership of the University and College Union declared it void. Lawyers had advised the union to rule the vote null and...
Sheffield post-punkers The Comsat Angels have announced a further 3 UK dates in October. Active from 1978 to 1995, Comsat Angels have been credited as an inspiration to current bands such as Editors, Interpol and White Lies and have been lovingly championed by film critic Mark Kermode as “the band Joy Division should have been.” The band will be performing songs from their first three albums...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, March 25 (UPI) -- U.K. scientists say they have solved one of the most puzzling features of the sun: why its outside atmosphere is hotter than its inner photosphere. Researchers from Belfast's Queen's University and Britain's University of Sheffield said the surface of the sun, known as the photosphere, reaches temperatures of 5,000 degrees Celsius, while its outer atmosphere,...
Google Maps added street view imagery for many major cities in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Glasgow, Belfast, Amsterdam and Rotterdam are some of the cities added to Google Street View. "Having checked my old house in Sheffield, which I moved out of last year, I can tell that the photo was taken in the last nine months, so it's much more up-to-date than...
...but in fact about Carlton Palmer. Yes, Carlton Palmer. The one who played for Sheffield Wednesday and, amazingly, England. Carlton Palmer who is, equally amazingly, the star of a new ad campaign for Paddy Power. Carlton Palmer who is so famous he has to introduce himself in an ad. Has this ever had to be done before for a celebrity endorsement? It's still a great ad.
The morning after our Oxford show we had breakfast next to the Carling Academy then drove out to the countryside to drop off Al’s girlfriend Rosie at her family’s farm. And this is what I’d wanted all along: rural England, pastoral calm, big heavy gray skies over dewy fields. We drove down the cobble streets [...]
DED Associates or DED ASS as they now go by, was founded by Jon and Nik Daughtry in 1991 in Sheffield England. Ded Ass are famous for super clean, contemporary design and illustration. When I was first starting out it was companies like DED ASS which really inspired me. I love their vector illustration style and [...]
A contestant on the BBC quiz show admitted he left the college he represented on the show halfway through filming.Christ Church college, Oxford, beat Sheffield University in last year's final.Teammate Charles Markland has revealed he transferred fro ...
A contestant has admitted he left the college he represented on the show halfway through filming.Christ Church college, Oxford, beat Sheffield University in last year's final of the BBC television show.Teammate Charles Markland has revealed he trans ...
A student production of Polly Teale's Brontë opens today, March 4, in the Sheffield College , Sheffield, UK: STUDENTS from a Sheffield college will take centre stage for a production of Polly Teale's Bronte. There will be matinee and evening performances of the show by the second-year performing arts foundation degree students from Norton College. The play, about the Bronte sisters, chronicles...
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