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Professor Martin Iddon pictured smiling and holding an Ivor Novello Award

Leeds academic wins Ivor Novello Award  

Published
Thursday 9th December, 2021
Categories
Arts & Culture

Professor Martin Iddon, Head of the School of Music at the University of Leeds, has won the Ivors Composers Award for Solo Composition. 

Street sign which says 'Playground'

Inequalities blighting children's lives in the North

Published
Tuesday 7th December, 2021
Categories
Society & Politics
Working with our region
Coronavirus
Health

Children growing up in the North of England face greater poverty and are more likely to die before reaching their first birthday than children in other parts of England, according to a new report.

Fossils of the now-extinct trilobite organism, Selenopeltis

Volcanic fertilisation of the oceans drove severe mass extinction

Published
Thursday 2nd December, 2021
Categories
News
Environment

Scientists discover two intense periods of volcanism triggered a period of global cooling and falling oxygen levels in the oceans, causing one of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth history.