Pictured is: Anjana Gadgil, presenter of The News Business Excellence Awards 2021 Picture: Keith Woodland (080721-23)
‘Portsmouth and the surrounding areas have some of the best examples of businesses in the country and I am proud that through The News we were able to showcase them.’
The night coincided with the inaugural Portsmouth and District Business Week, which started on Monday.
The week was organised by Hampshire Chamber of Commerce and the Portsmouth Business Strategy Leadership Group and has seen scores of events take place across the city and online to share expertise, advice and know-how in a grand celebration of enterprise.
UK universities cut arts, languages, humanities and social science degrees
The World Socialist Web Site has reported on the University of Sheffield’s intention to
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students. The decision that the department did not provide “value for money” came as the government is considering plans which would allow it to take more direct control of which courses receive funding.
A protest sign reading Save Archaeology on the Sheffield Minalloy House building of the University of Sheffield s Department of Archaeology (Credit: WSWS Media)
Course cuts are bound up with the marketisation of higher education which has escalated after the passage of the Higher Education and Research Act in 2017, under which the Office for Students (OfS) was mandated to “encourage competition between English higher education providers” and “promote value for money”. As higher education becomes a marketplace with brutal competition to recruit students and cut costs, universities are enacting corp
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Trout can become ‘addicted’ to meth. Here s why that’s so scary.
Illegal drugs could be having a little-known and disastrous impact on freshwater wildlife, new laboratory experiments show.
ByCarrie Arnold
Email
Traces of methamphetamine and other illegal drugs that enter waterways could cause addiction in fish, a novel study finds.
Recent laboratory experiments found that brown trout, a common fish in Eastern European rivers, exposed to methamphetamine at concentrations like those seen just downstream of wastewater treatment plants showed signs of addiction such as being less active and withdrawal. In the wild, meth-addicted fish could have difficulties reproducing and finding food.
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Around 269 million people worldwide use drugs each year. Often forgotten in this story is a problem of basic biology. What goes in must come out. Sewers are inundated with drugs that are excreted from the body, along with the broken down chemical components that have similar effects to the drugs themselves.
Sewage treatment plants don’t filter these things out – they were never designed for it. A lot of sewage also finds its way into rivers and coastal waters untreated. Once in the environment, drugs and their byproducts can affect wildlife. In a recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, researchers in the Czech Republic investigated how methamphetamine – a stimulant with a growing number of