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BBC News
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
University of Warwick to award eight honorary degrees
Eight honorary degrees are being awarded by a Coventry university to celebrate the achievements of inspirational degrees are being awarded as part of University of Warwicks's 60th anniversary journalist Clive Myrie, author Tracy Chevalier and YouTuber Colin Furze are among those selected for the accolade. The university said each person's story was chosen to help inspire the next generation of graduates. The full list of those set to receive an honorary degree from the university is below: Baroness Catherine Ashton (Hon DLitt)Baroness Catherine Ashton is a former UK Minister and the EU's first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy between 2009 and was chancellor of the University of Warwick from 2017 to 2024 and its first female Chevalier FRSL (Hon DLitt)Tracy Chevalier is a bestselling novelist whose works include Remarkable Creatures, The Last Runaway, and Girl with a Pearl Earring, which was adapted into a major Hollywood is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has served as chair of the UK Society of Authors and president of the Royal Literary Myrie (Hon DLitt)Clive Myrie is a BBC journalist and broadcaster who joined the BBC's graduate journalism programme in 1987. He has reported from over 80 countries, covering major conflicts, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Gaza. Since 2009, he has been a BBC news presenter and, since 2021, he has hosted Furze (Hon DSc)Colin Furze is a British inventor and YouTuber known for his imaginative engineering builds, including a hover bike, underground bunker, and world-record-breaking trained as a plumber, his projects include the world's longest motorcycle, a 71-mph mobility scooter and a motorised pram. The university will recognise the individuals during graduation ceremonies. Talan Skeels-Piggins (Hon DLitt)Talan Skeels-Piggins is a Paralympian, motorcycle racer and former Royal Navy a spinal injury in 2003, Talan captained a county-winning hockey team, represented Cornwall in hockey and windsurfing, and served as a Royal Navy Lieutenant with deployments worldwide. After his injury, he competed in alpine skiing for Great Britain at the 2010 Winter Paralympics and became the first paraplegic to race in an able-bodied motorcycle race. Dr Gemma Tetlow (Hon DSc)Dr Gemma Tetlow is Chief Economist at the Institute for Government and a Warwick alumni with a BSc and MSc in Economics. She earned her PhD from University College London. Her career includes senior roles at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and as economics correspondent at the Financial Urban (Hon DLitt)Mark Urban is a British journalist, military historian, and author with over 30 years' experience reporting on international conflict and diplomacy. A former Royal Tank Regiment officer, he was diplomatic editor for BBC Two's Newsnight until May 2024 and now writes for The Sunday Times specialising in defence and foreign Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Hon DSc)Professor Ekaterina Zhuravskaya is an economist at the Paris School of Economics and EHESS, and co-editor of the American Economic Review. Follow BBC Coventry & Warwickshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Digging A Hidden Garage Under Your House Is Somehow Even Harder Than It Sounds
The ultra-wealthy keep their cars in accommodations fancier than where the rest of us live, but why shouldn't we get access to the same level of incredibly cool car storage? Why shouldn't we be able to have expansive, secret garages with elevator entrances and faux exposed stone? Colin Furze seems to have asked the same question, because he's building such a garage right under his own home. Which, as it turns out, is somehow even more difficult than it sounds. Furze has been building his secret garage for months, with the help of just a few folks rather than some massive construction crew. He's dug out his front yard (sorry, front "garden"), connected it via tunnel to a hatch in his house's floor, and is now working on converting the cavern into a functional garage. The latest update featured plenty of the construction work you'd expect, pouring concrete and welding walls, but also plenty of consideration for something you might not have considered: Drainage. Read more: Honda Prologue Costs Less, Gets More Range Than Chevy Blazer EV Sibling Digging a hole is relatively simple — you rent a backhoe and start taking scoops of dirt — but keeping a UK deluge of rainwater out of that hole is another matter entirely. The structure Furze has constructed is riddled with a circulatory system of drainage pipes and gutters, though even such a dedicated design leaves some questions about how it'll deal with water. Sure, there's a sump pump box in the floor, but the floor itself is level — will it drain properly? Is the gutter filter large enough to handle a ground-level drain in UK rains? Cool car storage shouldn't just be reserved for the Fancy Kristens of the world, we should all get to have cool subterranean garages with hidden elevator entrances. Colin Furze is making his dream a reality, and we should all do the same. My landlord would probably be fine with me doing this, right? Read the original article on Jalopnik.
