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How much do school holidays cost?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/31/how-much-do-school-holidays-cost/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 31, 2018 According to the latest annual survey from the UK based Family and Childcare Trust the average price of holiday childcare is £133 per week in Britain.
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Tweeting
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/tweeting/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 Twitter transparency report Latest update on official requests for information and take down from governments to Twitter.
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8 people own the same wealth as 50% of the world’s population
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/8-people-own-the-same-wealth-as-50-of-the-worlds-population/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 This week the latest annual meeting of the World Economic Forum took place at Davos.
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Asthma in children could be diagnosed by smell
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/asthma-in-children-could-be-diagnosed-by-smell
The Midlands Asthma and Allergy Research Association (MAARA) - an East Midlands based charity which funds research into the causes and treatment of asthma and allergy - has approved grants totalling £230,000 over the next five years for a number of projects in the East...
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Cricket Country
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/cricket-country
An account of the history of Cricket, India, and the British Empire
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Brian Burch OBE
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2021/brian-burch
We have learned, with regret, of the death of Brian Burch OBE, who served as University Librarian from 1982 to 1995 and also wrote the definitive history of the University.
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Space Park Leicester launched by British astronaut Tim Peake
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/space-park-launch
UK astronaut Tim Peake officially opened Leicester’s pioneering space research, innovation and teaching cluster at a special ceremony on Monday.
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Latest insights into Saturn's weird magnetic field only make things weirder
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/5-latest-insights-into-saturns-weird-magnetic-field-only-make-things-weirder
Leicester space scientists, who have been involved in the Cassini mission for decades, discuss the ‘gold mine’ of information the mission has revealed about the ringed planet and their personal connections to the project
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Community partners launch Leicester children's health partnership
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/30-leicester-childrens-health-partnership
Kate 2298|Leicester City, Leicester's Hospitals and University of Leicester commit to long-term partnership to make the next generation of children the region's healthiest.
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Groundbreaking ceremony for Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/january/30-space-park-groundbreaking
L-R: Professor Emma Bunce, Professor of Planetary Plasma Physics, University of Leicester; Sir Peter Soulsby, City Mayor; Liz Kendall MP, Leicester West; Gary Dixon, Chair of Council, University of Leicester; Professor Nishan Canagarajah, President and VC, University of...