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By Craig Lewis
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image captionJeff, Helen, Xing and Alice Ding were murdered by Anxiang Du on 29 April 2011- the day of the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
A family of four was murdered in their own home on 29 April 2011 by a killer eventually traced to Morocco after a 14-month manhunt. Ten years on, the permanent legacy of hope left behind by the Ding family can still be seen.
Visitors to Caroline Chisholm School, in Northampton, are greeted by a sea of daffodils.
They were planted to celebrate the life of a former pupil who lit up the school with her hard work and talent.
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Tony Ball (left) and K.aatyart with the first piece of art to be hung.
Tony Ball said: “We were mulling over ways we could keep our customers entertained with something other than the normal stack of magazines you get to peruse whilst you’re having your hair done. And then we hit upon the idea of doing more with our blank walls.
“It’s a win-win really – the customers get to see K.aatyart’s amazing art, and she gets her work viewed by hundreds of people every month.”
K.aatyart put a post on Instagram, saying: “The lovely headlines team has given me a massive opportunity in displaying a new collection of my artwork, focusing on big hair in their studio.
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“British asset manager Standard Life Aberdeen is changing its name to ‘ABRDN PLC,’ abandoning the letter ‘e’ in phone-text fashion as part of a plan to modernize its brand,” Reuters reported on Monday. More than merely an attempt to appear more modern, “the Edinburgh-headquartered company said the name change would also allow it to own digital assets, such as apps and websites, without confusion with the city of Aberdeen.” The newly-announced, vowel-devoid name – which is still pronounced as “Aberdeen” – has resulted in amusement and criticism on social media, with users poking fun at the rebrand, while Manchester Metropolitan University linguistics professor Rob Drummond told the Guardian that “it looks like older people desperately trying to sound cool.”
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A group of former school friends have got together with tutors and three dimensional artists to design an app to make maths fun for secondary school students.
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STAFFS PIC / DAVID HAMILTON PIC / EXPRESS AND STAR PIC 23/4/21 With the app they have produced, Numero AR Limited director (left-right) Thomas Faulkner, Gursharan Singh, and Edward Farwell..
The app is set to go “live” on Android and IOS platforms towards the end of May and will be available for Years 7 to 11 to access on tablets, phones and other devices.
Gursharan Singh, aged 20, who is based in Rugeley, has taken six months out from studying aeronautical engineering at Loughborough University to launch the app together with co-directors Tom Faulkner, aged 20, who is studying history and politics at Manchester Metropolitan University, and 19-year-old Edward Farnell, who is studying law at Manchester.
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Gold fob seals, Sheffield silver, Mesolithic stone tools - these were some of the discoveries detailed in the 28 papers, books and pamphlets published by a soldier turned archaeologist who began looking at what you might find in the soil in the middle of a World War One battlefield. In her Essay, Seren Griffiths traces the way Francis Buckley used his training for military intelligence to shape the way he set about digging up and recording objects buried both in war-torn landscapes of France and Belgium and then on the Yorkshire moors around his home.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
Dr Seren Griffiths teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University and is involved in a project to use new scientific dating techniques to write the first historical narrative for two thousand years of what was previously prehistoric Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. She has also organised public events at the excavations she co- directs at Bryn Celli Ddu in North Wales