Nottingham pubs, bars and cafes reopening is like first day at school The weather is beautiful. I think everyone is happy to be back
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Sammy Sadeghi - manager at The Cross Keys in Byard Lane, Nottingham City Centre (Image: Joseph Raynor/Nottingham Post)
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As businesses across Andover reopen all over town today (April 12), they’re also being joined by the charity sector, many of whom have seen their incomes hit. Charity shops are among the many types of non-essential retail allowed to reopen by the government following the relaxation of restrictions. Reports from Nottingham Trent University suggest that 33 per cent of charities said that they had reported a deteriorating financial position in February 2021, with a similar proportion expecting their revenue to continue to decline. However, Andover’s charity shops have been fighting back, such as Neighbourcare, which runs both a charity shop and bookshop on Union Street.
Thirty years ago, Sir Michael Dummett, who had just retired as the eminent professor of logic at Oxford University, felt the need to write a book that would help students answer their questions. Not the content of their answers, just how to express themselves.
Sir Michael was worried because a survey had shown that nearly half of university vice-chancellors were so concerned about their students’ literacy, they had decided to introduce special lessons to help them express themselves more clearly. These, remember, were supposed to be the brightest and best young people our country has to offer.
Today’s vice-chancellors and professors are worried about the same thing, but their response has been rather different. It has been: if you can’t spell or use punctuation accurately or write basic, simple, reasonably grammatical English, don’t worry about it. You won’t lose any marks in your exams because tutors are being told to adopt a policy called ‘inclusive assessments’.
Study uncovers molecular reason why fecal transplants effectively treat C. difficile infections
Experts have uncovered a new molecular reason why fecal transplants are highly effective in treating infections such as
C. difficile (a nasty bacteria that can infect the bowel), which could lead to more targeted treatments for this and other similar diseases.
The study, published today in
Gastroenterology, was led by experts from the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University.
Clostridium difficile, also known as
C. difficile or
C. diff, is a bacterium that can infect the bowel and cause diarrhea. The infection most commonly affects people who have recently been treated with antibiotics. It can spread easily to others. A stool transplant - or to give it its full title a fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) - aims to repopulate the patient s gut with the microbes from a healthy person, making it a successful therapy against