An eight-carriage train derailed when approaching Enfield Town station during rush hour at around 8:15am yesterday. The Overground train continued moving upright at an angle after hitting the buffers and jutted over the end of the tracks, losing its momentum, and stopping just short of smashing into the station window and swerving onto the platform. Emergency services…
Books, Venue
Noirwich Crime-Writing Festival: Killer Debuts
TW: fear, violence, animal abuse, trauma, lynching The shadow of Noirwich, the annual crime-writing festival, descended upon the city of stories. From this darkness emerged three writers: Catriona Ward, Femi Kayode, and Greg Buchanan, connected by their shared experience as alumni of UEA’s writing programme. I caught their 11th September conversation with host Lee Randall….
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Social media platforms crash worldwide
Earlier today at around 4pm, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Messenger went offline. The users of these platforms, all owned by Facebook and operate on shared infrastructure, received around 70,000 reported issues in total from 4pm to 5pm. The Facebook app will show content previously loaded but is unable to generate recent content, whereas only an…
Lifestyle, Travel
Out of the clubbing club
Entry costs £5. Cloakroom costs £2. Each beer costs £5 plus, along with the cost of the hangover the next day. All for what? Listening to music I wouldn’t normally listen to, surrounded by people I wouldn’t normally have invited. While I miss the atmosphere of the club scene, what I missed afterwards was my…
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Festivals provide invaluable research – keep the party going
On 2nd May, the Covid test event in Sefton Park, Liverpool, greeted approximately 5000 punters who could breach the 2-metre perimeter and exhibit their maskless faces for one night only as part of the government’s Event Research Programme. Alongside a ticket, the revellers had to produce a negative test taken just before the event started….
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UEA Vice Chancellor David Richardson offers full support to Afghan students
Vice Chancellor David Richardson released a statement offering UEA’s full support to Afghan students, linked in an email sent around 3pm today via the UEA intranet. He begins: “The University of East Anglia (UEA) is deeply concerned at the distressing scenes unfolding in Afghanistan and calls for the UK Government to expedite the safe passage…
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Decolonise UEA calls for UEA and the SU to adopt JDA definition of Antisemitism
Over the past week, various UEA societies have shared a statement written by Decolonise UEA on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram calling for UEA and the SU to replace the current IHRA definition of Antisemitism with the JDA definition. As well as this, the statement calls for a boycott of institutions such as Barclays “that are…
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Banksy confirms East Anglian coastal murals were his creations
10 new pieces of street art found along the East Anglian coast were produced by Banksy, revealed in an Instagram video posted on Friday from his official account. Conceived in what he called “A Great British Spraycation”, the anonymous artist filmed himself wearing a hoodie to conceal his identity, spraying the creations at locations around…
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Poland grants Belarussian Olympian humanitarian visa
Belarussian sprinter Krystina Timanovskaya has been granted a humanitarian visa by Poland after refusing her team’s order to fly home early from the Olympics. Timanovskaya, 24, spent last night secured in a hotel under protection before travelling to the Polish embassy in Tokyo. She voiced fears for her safety following her criticism on her team’s…
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