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?20m mall unveiled by Queen
The Queen was this afternoon opening the ?20 million Medway mall project being pioneered by Greenwich and Kent universities at Chatham. The eventual aim is to create a joint campus that will offer courses from the two universities, Mid-Kent College of Further and Higher Education and other local colleges.

Sentencing of retired Burmese professor condemned
Human Rights Watch condemned as "harsh" a seven-year jail sentence imposed on Tuesday on a 74-year-old retired university professor who took part in a pro-democracy demonstration in November in front of the Rangoon City Hall. Salai Tun Than, who is retired from Yezin University in Pyinmana, Upper Burma, distributed copies of a petition calling on the Burmese government to hold a general election in one year and to transfer power to the winners.

Quiet reception for professor's invention
Retired Huddersfield University professor Selwyn Wright has invented a silence machine that can switch off noisy neighbours or the din of road works with the press of a button. It is able to silence a specific source of noise while other sounds remain audible. He developed the machine in his garage with a grant from the Department of Trade and Industry.

Online access to OUP for a fee
Oxford University Press is publishing its language and subject reference dictionaries online - for a fee. Accessing the information will cost from about $250 (?175) a year for schools to just under $3,000 for libraries.