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University scientists in the fast lane to an engineering future

Researchers from the University of Leeds are involved in a unique, five-year £10 million collaboration to improve virtual engineering.

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Gannets don’t eat off each other’s plates

Colonies of gannets maintain vast exclusive fishing ranges despite doing nothing to defend their territory from rival colonies, scientists have discovered.

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Researchers develop new weapon in fight against cervical cancer

Scientists at the University of Leeds have found a way to target and destroy a key protein associated with the development of cervical and other cancers.

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Police privatise running of cells

As a further seven police forces are expected to hand the management of their cells to the private sector for the first time, in order to meet stringent government cost-saving targets, a study by researchers at the University of Leeds has found fewer than a third of the newly-elected Police and Crime Commissioners said in their manifestos that they opposed private-sector-outsourcing.

Financial Times
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Radio: Breakfast show

Professor Doug Parker (Earth & Environment) discusses the UK’s strange seasons over the past few years, ahead of a meeting that he is attending at the Met Office headquarters today.

BBC Radio 5 Live
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Gannet by name but not nature – this bird’s a picky eater

More coverage of the research co-lead by Leeds academics, Dr Ewan Wakefield and Dr Keith Hamer from FBS, which found that gannets avoid other bird’s territories and stick to their own fishing grounds.

Yorkshire Post
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