Paul Brackley
Editor at Cambridge Independent
Editor, Cambridge Independent, & Editorial Director, Iliffe Media Ltd
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6 days ago |
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | Paul Brackley
Former Cambridge United forward Tom Youngs has died at the age of 45, following a battle with multiple sclerosis. Tom played 180 times for the U’s between 1997 and 2003, including 35 as a substitute, scoring 48 goals and contributing many assists.
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1 week ago |
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | Paul Brackley
The newly-elected mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough began his push for light rail in the Cambridge region on his first day - and also began action to “end the war on motorists”Conservative Paul Bristow announced a change in direction at the Combined Authority following his election success last week. Among his first actions were to scrap the Combined Authority’s target of reducing car miles driven by 15 per cent by 2030.
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1 week ago |
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | Paul Brackley
Giant icebergs the size of Cambridge once roamed off the coast of the UK, according to British Antarctic Survey researchers. They have found distinctive grooves carved in sediments below the seafloor that were left by the icebergs during the last ice age, 18,000 to 20,000 years ago. It is the first evidence of large, tabular icebergs off the coast of the UK and suggests the British and Irish Ice Sheet had ice shelves.
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cambridgeindependent.co.uk | Paul Brackley
Researchers in Cambridge have identified a key enzyme that drives Parkinson’s disease and have shown that blocking it restores normal functions in animal and cell models. The breakthrough offers a promising new target for treatment of the disease, although there are challenges to overcome first. In Parkinson’s, the protein alpha-synuclein builds up in clumps called Lewy bodies in nerve cells in the brain, stopping them from functioning normally and eventually causing the cells to die.
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1 week ago |
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | Paul Brackley
A cancer patient has undergone the first robot-assisted double operation to be carried out at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. After the joint bowel and liver operation, Philip Green said: “I was blown away by how fast it was all over.”The 69-year-old was amazed by how smooth it was and how little pain he was in afterwards. “One minute the anaesthetist was explaining I’d soon drift off, and the next I was waking up in recovery and looking at a chap in the bed opposite,” he said. “It was like a win-win.
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