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What the Butler Saw
https://le.ac.uk/joe-orton/plays/butler
Get more information about the ways in which we celebrated the 50th anniversary of What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton, for the Joe Orton: 50 Years On project.
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Study sheds light on how COVID-19 and blood glucose levels increase in-hospital cardiovascular and renal problems
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/covid-glucose
People admitted to hospital with COVID-19 are more at risk of developing cardiovascular and renal complications if they have low or high blood glucose levels, new research has revealed.
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Penny Bloods on display in the Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/05/09/penny-bloods-on-display-in-the-library/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 9, 2014 Penny Bloods, popular from the 1840s to the 1860s, were so named because of their preoccupation with the gory and sensational.
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University of Leicester remembers playwright Joe Orton
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/university-of-leicester-remembers-playwright-joe-orton
Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton and the occasion is being marked by a host of events remembering his work and involving our University. Joe Orton (1933-1967) was a leading postwar playwright.
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Plays
https://le.ac.uk/joe-orton/plays
We celebrated three of Joe Orton's plays on their 50th anniversaries: Loot, Entertaining Mr Sloane and What the Butler Saw. Find out more.
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Spooky flower will bloom in time for Hallowe’en
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/botanic-garden
The spookily-named Corpse Flower is about to bloom in the University’s Botanic Garden – just in time for Hallowe’en.
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Leicester diabetes expert’s research supports ‘game changing’ obesity breakthrough
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/semaglutide
Ground breaking research in diabetes led by a team of Leicester researchers has played an integral role in laying the foundations for new research published today, which reveals that a new anti-obesity medication is almost twice as effective in helping people lose weight than...
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Centenary tree planting helps Borough’s competition chances to bloom
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/botanic-bloom
Dr Richard Gornall, Director of the Botanic Garden & Curator of the Herbarium at the University of Leicester, said: “We are thankful to the borough of Wigston and Oadby for its donation to the garden which marks the centenary of the University of Leicester.
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Leicestershire and East Midlands mark sickle cell day
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/leicestershire-and-east-midlands-mark-sickle-cell
An awareness drive to educate people about the UK’s biggest genetic blood disorder has been launched in Leicestershire and the East Midlands to coincide with an international campaign.
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Leicester academic to chair expert panel at the British Library
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/17-dr-emma-parker-joe-orton-british-library
Dr Emma Parker, Associate Professor of Postwar and Contemporary Literature in the University of Leicester’s Department of English, will chair a star-studded panel discussion on Joe Orton’s 1969 play What the Butler Saw at the British Library on Tuesday 23 April 2019.