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PREMIERSHIP & CHAMPIONSHIP RUGBY TAKE ON CONCUSSION STUDY 30 Aug 2017 Rugby players from Aviva Premiership Rugby and Greene King IPA Championship are to take part in a major study led by the University of Birmingham as part of its work to develop a pitch-side test to diagnose concussion and brain injury. The study, being carried out in collaboration with the Rugby Football Union (RFU), Premiership Rugby and the Rugby Players’ Association (RPA), will run throughout the 2017/18...

Lives Remembered The Times 15th August 2017   Derek Wyatt writes: I was researching a film on Basil D'Oliveira in 1991 and went to see Doug Insole (Obituary, August8) at Essex CC's HQ.   I told him that Basil had been beaten as a teenager by white police and still had the marks on his back. Donald Woods had told me that he ahd been speaking at a white only cricket club dinner in East London when it was interrupted by the news that "Dolly" had been selected. Its members promptly...

Little England by Derek Wyatt   You know. You know when you know there is something not quite right but your unsure what to do? Well that's me today. We no longer know what to do with anyone over 60. It is personal. I am over 60. When it was my parents turn they had certainty. They were working one day and then as they turned 60 and 65 respectively they no longer had to go to work. They had so looked forward to this happening to them. They had been saving furiously and had chosen to...

Published Letter in The Guardian on 10th July 2017 on University Fees   Dear Sir The initial mistake in introducing fees for university students was to make them the same for every institution. It is fanciful to think that we have over 160 universities which are all equally centres of academic excellence. We need a premier league (Ivy in USA), a champions league and no more. Those hundred or so eliminated from these two divisions should become metropolitan or county universities...

KCWToday monthly newspaper July 2017 Editorial You know. You know when you know there is something not quite right but your unsure what to do? Well that's me today. We no longer know what to do with anyone over 60. It is personal. I am over 60. When it was my parents turn they had certainty. They were working one day and then as they turned 60 and 65 respectively they no longer had to go to work. They had so looked forward to this happening to them. They had been saving furiously and had...