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Manual workers accept pay rise
University manual workers have voted overwhelmingly to accept their biggest ever pay rise. Members of the Transport and General Workers¡¯ Union voted 95 per cent in favour of accepting the deal which will give cleaners, caterers, porters and gardeners a 6.7 per cent rise over 16 months.

Blair explains Canadian knighthoods
Prime minister Tony Blair is to write to the Canadian premier after a ¡°regrettable misunderstanding¡± in which Ulster University vice-chancellor George Bain and Welsh-born billionaire Terry Matthew, another Canadian national, were knighted. Canadian prime minister Jean Chr¨¦tien complained that his government had not been consulted over the knighthoods.

UN chief lectures at Oxford
United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan is to deliver a lecture on democracy at Oxford University this afternoon. He will receive an honorary doctor of civil law degree tomorrow.

Scots launch transatlantic journal
Dundee University has signed a publishing agreement with Edinburgh University Press for a new journal in transatlantic studies, to be launched next summer. The editor of the bi-annual journal will be Alan Dobson of Dundee¡¯s politics department.