Issue 472, 5 November 2001

Main news stories

• Consultation begins on University's future
  The University is currently drawing up a strategic plan to determine its future development over the next five years..
• Bretton ode to a Grecian puteal
  Two antiquities inherited by the University from Bretton Hall are to be sold by auction.
• First words and fortunes at Leeds language festival
  Visitors to the Festival of Languages on November 14 will see martial arts demonstrations, taste pasta and croissants, try out origami, dance the samba or salsa ...
• Worm is named in tribute
  Lancashire conservationists have begun a project to ensure the survival of a rare carniverous worm, found only in one flooded gravel pit in the UK and named after retired Leeds lecturer Joe Jennings.
• War resistance in West Yorkshire - the Huddersfield hotspot of pacifism
  A white feather - symbol of cowardice and failing one's country - was handed out scornfully to those who refused to fight during the First World War.
• Psychology lecturer gets top TV award
  Leeds psychology lecturer Dr Naz Derakshan has been acknowledged in Carlton TV's multicultural achievement awards..
• Drowned, lost, then found again - Helike
  Earth scientist Richard Collier has been helping to explain why the Greek city of Helike has been found buried by river sediment on the edge of the Gulf of Corinth.
• Flagship medical alliance launch
  A ground-breaking health partnership has been established between the University, the NHS and Leeds City Council.
  
  

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