Puzzles Editor Joseph O'Keeffe (Mulholland) offers a comprehensive guide to cryptic crosswords, as well as examples to try.

In this week's News in Brief... chemical castrations, cuts to train stations, AI growth zones and ancient tomes.

Durham University has moved up one place in The Guardian's league tables, being ranked 5th in the country. The University was awarded an overall score of 85.4, which is calculated based off wider ...

Durham University has confirmed that around 90 undergraduate students from Van Mildert and St Aidan’s Colleges will be housed in Ustinov College’s Sheraton Park site in the upcoming 2025/26 academic ...

Durham freshers have been told by the University that they must either live in out-of-college Ustinov accommodation or forfeit University accommodation.

A new student society representing the Labour Party has been founded. The Durham University Labour Society (DULS) hopes to be “a welcoming space for anyone who considers themselves a supporter of the ...

This week's News in Brief covers everything from free heritage activities... to the best drinking spots in the city.

New statistics show that Durham University admitted the lowest proportion of state-educated students in the 2020/21 academic year, compared to any other UK university. Just 61.6% of the new cohort, ...

Beauty is booming. The industry hit a global market value of $511bn (around £392bn) last year and managed to emerge from the pandemic relatively unscathed with a worldwide revenue of over $80bn (over ...

In a bid to address decades of underinvestment in military space capabilities, the UK government has approved a £127 million contract to develop two advanced surveillance satellites. This initiative, ...