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By Cristina Criddle
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A popular Call of Duty player has quit its Warzone game over claims it is “saturated with hackers”.
Vikkstar - who has more than seven million subscribers on YouTube - said the game was in “the worst state it has ever been”.
Warzone was released last March and has been played by more than 50 million people worldwide.
Activision, the publisher, previously said it has a zero tolerance for cheaters.
UK-based Vikkstar - whose real name is Vikram Singh Barn - explained why he was leaving in a video on YouTube.
The fact players can livestream themselves blatantly hacking with zero repurcussions blows my mind. This guy is 2nd prestige & broadcasts hours of himself hacking.
Trump Reportedly Believes Impeachment Trial Is âBadge Of Honourâ
by : Emma Rosemurgey on : 30 Jan 2021 17:07
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Donald Trump reportedly believes that his impending impeachment trial will serve as a badge of honour, if he is acquitted of the charges against him.
The former POTUS is thought to be hopeful about the trial, which is set to begin on February 8, after just five Republican senators opposed a motion declaring it unconstitutional to impeach a former president, when Democrats require 17 votes to find him guilty.
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âHe was gratified, because thatâs certainly his view: that itâs unfair and unconstitutional, and he knows it means thereâs no chance heâll be convicted,â a friend of Trumpâs reportedly told
Work has started on the University of Central Lancashire’s latest building
University study centre to be campus prize
Work has started on an ambitious new £8.5m hi-tech study centre at the University of Central Lancashire.
The four-storey building on the Preston campus will feature state of the art radio and television studios for media students as well as a mock hospital ward and medical laboratories.
PNE legend Andy McLaren died aged 74
Students and lecturers will be able to browse through shops on the ground floor while computer boffins can surf the Internet in a cyber-space cafe.
Other facilities also include a huge lecture theatre with a moveable stage and seating for more than a hundred people.
£50 million bid to secure futures of Cleator Moor and Millom
Roger Morris-Eyton and Kayleigh Danels
A bid for up to £50 million to invest into the future of two West Cumbrian communities has been unveiled.
Cleator Moor and Millom’s town boards have finalised their applications for the Governmentâs Towns Fund.
If successful, it is hoped that up to £25 million of investment from the Government will be pumped into each town.
Copeland Council was invited to bid for funding on behalf of Cleator Moor (incorporating Cleator) and Millom (incorporating Haverigg) in January last year.
Town boards were created, made up of community representatives, which have been working in with the council to produce town investment plans.
Posted: Jan 26, 2021 3:59 PM AT | Last Updated: January 26
Tara Taylor is from East Preston, N.S., and Philip Sykes lives in Preston, Lancashire in northern England. (Tara Taylor/Philip Sykes)
From a clog-dancing world champion to a Cuban shark hunter, the people who live in the world s many Prestons have some interesting tales to tell.
And a performance arts group in the U.K. is on a mission to collect them all.
Preston Calling a project to unite people who call Preston home and help keep the loneliness of the pandemic at bay was launched last year by Derelict, a non-profit arts organization based in Preston, Lancashire.