Tim Woodstrover plumbs the depths of why we call some extinct species 'alien' and what this means for the future of conservation ...

Offensive chats, such as one which said that Adolf Hitler was “too lenient”, were left on a Durham Freshers WhatsApp group including over 500 prospective Durham University students. The Whatsapp ...

Student groups, charities and community institutions are financially supporting Durham Pride 2026 after Durham County Council’s decision not to fund the event this year.

From the string quartet buskers on Charles Bridge, surrounded by tourists and comedic cartoon illustrators, to The Royal Czech Orchestra’s classical concerts of Mozart, Vivaldi, and Beethoven in ...

On a late Monday afternoon in December, I rang the doorbell of the Kensington home of Jonathan Aitken, the high-flying politician turned vilified prisoner turned redeemed priest. Warmly welcomed in, I ...

South College students staged a walkout during a Christmas formal last night in protest at the event’s guest speaker, columnist Rod Liddle. The college’s Principal, Professor Tim Luckhurst, shouted ...

Durham University has announced they are working on a project to improve University communications, eventually beyond 5G capability. They have announced their aim of ‘drastically improving the speed ...

South College has come out on top of Palatinate’s Evans Table – a ranking of college academic performance – for the second year running. The system awards nine points for a first, four for a 2:1, one ...

Durham University has made the Durham Grant Scheme (DGS), which provides students from households with lower household income, more generous by widening the eligibility criteria. This means that ...

Durham’s new College Sport Code of Conduct for Spectators, published in Michaelmas term, included the line: “Homophobic chanting, such using ‘nonce’ and ‘rent boy’ will not be tolerated in any way.” ...

New statistics show that Durham University admitted the lowest proportion of state-educated students in the 2020/21 academic year, compared to any other UK university. Just 61.6% of the new cohort, ...

T. S. Eliot’s remarkable poetic feat, The Waste Land, was first published in December 1922 during the peak of the 1920’s technological revolution. Accelerated advancements in machinery across the ...