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Financial Times

Cambridge 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ has released plans for a ?2m "laboratory" for non-scientists that will give academics from other faculties the chance to brainstorm like scientists and technologists.

The European Commission is today expected to agree plans to streamline its research programme and focus on key areas as a way of creating an internal market for research.

Thomas Telford, the first non-selective state school with a 100 per cent GCSE pass rate, aims to net ?2.5m from selling an online IT course to 820 other schools next year.

Daily Telegraph

De Montford 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ is to close its Milton Keynes campus, which was opened by the Queen in 1992, when students finish courses.

Independent

Tony Blair is preparing to give a speech about incentives to use renewable energy, on March 6, pushing back the budget by a day.

After a ?1 milion, eight-month research project, engineers have discovered a mathematical formula, F=KxV , that they believe will cure the Millennium Bridge of its sideways motion.

The number of women developing cervical cancer could be cut by up to 40 per cent if viral testing is added to the standard cervical smear the NHS offers to all women.

Guardian

51¹ú²úÊÓƵ secretary Jack Straw will tomorrow announce new powers giving statutory force to the campaign to tackle institutional racism in schools, hospitals, universities and across the public sector, including the police and prisons.

The Russian government yesterday claimed that the London School of Economics was being used as a recruiting ground for Islamic fundamentalist mercenaries fighting state forces in Chechnya.

Analysis of a child's skeleton buried on the eve of the fall of the Roman empire has revealed that the barbarians may have had a secret ally: malaria, according to the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

Miscellany

British teenagers are the heaviest drinkers, smokers and drug-takers in Europe, according to a health study published today. (All papers)

After decades of searching for the fuel of the future, the government believes it has found it in the elephant grass that lurks forgotten in the back gardens of suburban Britain. (Financial Times, Independent)