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Loughborough and the surrounding Charnwood district are to move into Tier 2 lockdown restrictions from Saturday morning, the Department of Health has announced. From 00:01 on Saturday, those living within Charnwood must not meet socially with friends and family indoors in any setting, unless they live with them or have formed a support bubble. Leader of the Council, Jonathan Morgan, said that “when residents and businesses wake up on Saturday morning they must follow the new regulations, or face heavy fines.” The restrictions cover both private homes and any other venues such as pubs and restaurants, but do not apply…
Label’s Political Editor Connor Wade gives a brief history of Black British politicians in Parliament with a focus on the 1987 election and Diane Abbott, Bernie Grant and Paul Boateng. You may have had an awkward conversation or two with your parents or grandparents about the recent events in the US and the UK around the BLM movement. You might just be curious to learn the history you weren’t taught at school. The truth is that many of the aspects of politics that we take for granted today are only very recent developments – the first black people in the…
Label volunteer writer Michael Haddad discusses the damaging effects of the ‘Virtual Assistant Referee’ since it’s introduction to professional football. Football has always been known for its passion, controversy and unpredictability. Perhaps these are the reasons why billions of fans all over the world fell in love with the beautiful game. The pondering question is whether the introduction of this ‘Virtual Assistant Referee’ is what the game has needed for a greater sense of objectivity and fairness, or has it just created an even greater debate that’s taking away from the game itself? Introduction of the Technology When VAR was…
Label’s Editor Emily Jackson gives a rundown of President Donald Trump’s latest (and very controversial) nomination to the Supreme Court As we near closer and closer to the 2020 US Presidential election, let’s take a look at who exactly Donald Trump’s newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice is. After the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who served in the Supreme Court from 1993, many believe that Donald Trump has used her death as an advantage as he had placed his nominee forward, almost immediately, as a ninth vacancy appeared. Ahead of the election, Trump could use this opportunity to make the…
Loughborough researchers have identified a ‘non-invasive’ breath test that provides instant COVID-19 results alongside the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Germany’s Klinikum Dortumnd Hospital. First demonstrated by a team at G.A.S.Gmbh on their TOXI-Triage project, ‘breath signatures’ can be used to identify COVID-19 from other respiratory conditions. 98 patients took part in the testing, where Gas Chromatography was used to separate and diagnose the 31 patients who had COVID. The patients only gave a ‘single breath-sample’ which identified aldehydes, ketones and methanol that ‘discriminated COVID-19 from other conditions.’ Paul Thomas, Professor of Analytical Science from the Department of Chemistry, said…
As it is Black History Month, I would like to commemorate and share the importance of the Windrush Generation. A generation which not only helped Britain in a time of need but, a generation that were wrongly mistreated due to the broken and unequal system of the immigration system in place today. Who are the Windrush Generation? Many people from Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago and other Caribbean countries were brought to the UK to fill the post-war labour shortages in the UK. This event was mainly characterised by the arrival of the ship named the MV Empire Windrush, which docked on…
Let’s celebrate the current music careers of two of the UK’s most successful artists right now: Stormzy and Dave. Both artists can be considered inspirations within UK black culture, with their performances and projects over the last few years evidencing this. Stormzy’s Glastonbury 2019 set was historic. Not just for his incredible performance but, that he was the first black British solo artist to headline at the festival. His set gave me goose bumps throughout! I was flabbergasted to hear in an interview on The Jonathan Ross Show that he had major problems with his audio early-on in the…
As part of Label’s Black History Month celebrations, I decided to slide into the DMs of Loughborough-based athlete and singer Jazmin Sawyers. Jazmin is not only a talented and inspirational individual but also a genuine voice of empowerment and change. I’m happy to say that she did in fact reply and below you will find our interview. It details a bit about Jazmin’s life and explores some important issues that continue to pervade our society. It’s great to have you Jazmin – for our readers that don’t already know who you are, tell us a bit about your multi-talented self……
Label Volunteer Ishaq Adams gives his thoughts on the COVID-19 Test and Trace system and its success (or otherwise) Covid-19, also known as the disease that changed all our lives, came as a surprise to us all. Although this new strain of the novel Coronavirus was already circulating in late 2019, it was in early-to-mid 2020 that our lives were impacted. On the 16th March 2020 Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 2018, announced all unnecessary social contact should cease. Following this, on the 23rd March 2020 Boris Johnson announced that people had to…
Leader of Charnwood Borough Council, Jonathan Morgan, has confirmed that the Council will be ‘reviewing the borough’s medium risk tier’ this coming week. 863 new cases of Coronavirus have been reported by the Government in Charnwood over the last 7 days, with 105 of those reported on Sunday. The news comes on the same day that the University area was announced as having the second-highest number of cases in the entirety of England. The Charnwood case count equates to 353 cases per 100,000 people – far above the national average of 201. One person has died from COVID-19 in Charnwood in…