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Old toothbrushes and video tapes are ‘ingredients’ for a green initiative from the University of Brighton and its partners. They plan to construct the UK’s first house made out of waste. The rubbish will be tested for their insulation properties with a view to recycling them as sustainable building materials.
The cost of Education is out of control. That’s according to thousands of students who marched through London. In March there was chaos as students walked out of university classrooms in a nationwide protest against the high fees and cuts.
Film Awards for 2012 have taken place in Peckham. Young Sarah Peace got the top prize for her film “At The Bus Station”. In 2011, 12 year old Oscar Simmons shared best drama award in the young filmmakers competition run by the Free Film Festival
Congratulations to Student, Keisha McDonald who was a runner-up in the Local TV news awards sponsored by YNUKtv and Brunel University. Watch her visual skills as she tells the story about thieves taking metal objects from churches and selling them for huge profits
More than two thousand foreign students could be ejected from Britain after London Metropolian University lost its right to admit foreigners. The government’s Border Agency withdrew the university’s authority after it found there was no monitoring of student attendance and that many had no right to be in the country. The video has more
This time a year ago riots were spreading through England. In London in the leafy suburb of Ealing people swept the streets, closed up early after a night of rioting, fires and looting. Local residents were stunned and couldn’t believe it had happened in their area
Police say Churches are among the many locations raided by thieves for precious metal that is later sold for huge profits. Valuable items and objects regularly disappear never to be found. Media student Keisha McDonald has this report
Its not quite the glitz of LA but a new generation of filmmakers has emerged from Peckham.
Members of a North London solicitor’s firm were found guilty at the Old Bailey for their part in sham marriages. This was the subject chosen by student Samantha Bobb-Lucas who was a contestant in the YNUKtv/Brunel University media student awards in October 2012.
Pianos decorated with an artistic brush were located all over Cambridge to encourage people to get together and have fun. Play Me, I’m Yours is an initiative of the Faculty of Music at the Cambridge University.
From Olympics to movies. The latest film of Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle, Trance, opens in UK cinemas Wednesday March 27. The dark thriller about a multi-million dollar art heist, stars James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel and Rosario Dawson. Brian Hayes has been to see it
Meryl Streep wins an Oscar as well as a BAFTA for best actress in The Iron Lady. Brian Hayes reviews her role
The film Hitchcock unfolds the complex love story between Hitchcock and his wife Alma during the making of the spine-tingling 1960 thriller Psycho. Brian Hayes has seen it and was impressed with the performances
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