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The Doughnut Newsletter 01/12/23
How to read your newsletter: This newsletter may be different to the kind we’re all used to; we are striving to make it as interactive and engaging as possible. As Marjon students, we already have the fantastic resource of The Doughnut and we wanted to bring...
Devon Live Sport Blog
Good Morning Devon, the Doughnut is the go-to place for sports news all across the region and today is no different. Across the day we will have live updates from the county’s teams ahead of this weekend’s live sporting action. 13:14 – IN FULL: Read...
‘Merry Christmas , ya filthy animals!’ – Home Alone actor Macaulay Culkin gets Hollywood Walk of Fame star and reunites with his on-screen mum Catherine O’Hara
In a seriously sweet reunion, our favourite Home Alone duo, Macaulay Culkin (43) and Catherine O’Hara (69), got together to celebrate Culkin’s Hollywood Walk of Fame unveiling and a whopping 33 years since their unforgettable roles as Kevin and Kate...
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Why is Overconsumption normalised?
Overconsumption can take many forms, from food waste to population to resources and more recently technology and trends. As life expectancy has grown over the last 100 years food waste, population and resources have had to grow to accommodate our worlds aging...
Breathless at Theatre Royal Plymouth
Photo Courtesy of Soho Theatre Inspired by her own life story, Breathless is a new 65 minute play; from genius and Plymouth Laureate of Words, Laura Horton- who originally wrote the play as a 20 minute piece, which first started off as an explorative creation in...
“System Change Not Climate Change” – How Bristol are actively combatting the climate crisis
Saturday 12th November saw the latest in several protests for Climate Justice and hundreds of protesters descended onto the streets of Bristol to raise awareness of various climate issues. Protests were planned across the UK to coincide with COP27 in Egypt and the...
Bugsy Malone at Theatre Royal Plymouth
Photo Courtesy of ATG Tickets You’ve probably heard of the classic 1976 musical, which brought fame to many young actors; such as Jodie Foster and Scott Baio- but director Sean Holmes brings a whole new perspective to watching this hilariously unusual gangster spoof...
Biggest ever university strike to hit UK higher-education institutions
Over 70,000 University staff at 150 universities are set to strike later this month, over pay, conditions, and pensions. The University and College Union (UCU) announced that members had voted overwhelmingly to strike, as the cost-of-living crisis squeezes pay and...
‘I really feel like I’m one of you’ Brazil honour Hamilton citizenship
Seven time world champion Lewis Hamilton, was made an honorary citizen of Brazil ahead of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. Hamilton formally received his honour in the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia last Monday, where he touched on how much of an influence his hero Ayrton...
Mahsa Amini’s death triggered the protest cutting hair
Created by: Affinity May and Megan Milne The death of a 22-year-old woman being detained by Iran’s ‘morality police’ has inspired women worldwide to cut their hair in protest for Mahsa Amini. An undated picture obtained from social media shows Mahsa Amini...
Hardie Haunts Exeter in Halloween Clash!
Plymouth Argyle striker Ryan Hardie scored a brace as the Greens disposed of their Devon rivals 4-2 in a highly anticipated clash at Home Park. The Grecians struck first blood after 25 minutes with Midfielder Archie Collins slotting from close range from a Jay...
Cracks begin to show at Twitter after mass layoffs
ELON Musk abruptly fired nearly half of Twitter’s workforce on Friday, in an effort to cut costs. Musk bought the social media giant in October for $44bn, and quickly revealed sweeping changes to the platform. Musk said the company was losing over $4m (£3.5m) per day...
Plymouth Marjon leads the way and becomes one of the greenest universities in the country.
Plymouth Marjon university exceeds the vision and becomes one of the greenest universities in the country. Doing their bit to protect the planet, Marjon's is committed to zero carbon by 2030. With the ground source heat pumps being installed, final checks completed...
Queer Hate Crimes and the Dreaded Question
There are certain types of people in this world who will always find someone to hate. It may not be that they are, in themselves, hateful, but rather that they find themselves, as people so often are, afraid of that which they don’t understand, that which is...
Is Crypto mining worth it in 2022?
With GPU prices falling by an estimated 25-30% in NVidia’s RTX 20/30 series in the last 3 months, and with more people being able to grab that special card they have always wanted, is it now the time for more people to get into the cryptocurrency market? For...
When lucy met the Bluetits
https://sites.marjon.ac.uk/doughnut/files/2022/04/Bluetits-AUDIO-CLIP-NO.-2-MP3.mp3 On Tuesday 12th April I went down to the white steps of Tinside on Plymouth Hoe, where I had arranged to meet Claire Cassidy of the Plymouth Ladies Bluetits group. Tinside is where...
Wordle – are you hooked?
Wordle! Have you heard of it and are you, like me, already addicted? The online game Wordle is the newest instant daily word thing to appear in the lives of scrabble and other wordgame addicts. It first appeared online in October 2021 and was created by Josh Wardle, a...
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If, like me, you’d never seen this image before, it’s called the Headington Shark! On Saturday 9th August 1986, the postman was greeted by the installation of this giant shark as he walked his early round on New High Street in Headington, a small suburb of...
Wolves give Manchester United and Ralf Ragnick a reality check, top 4 now a struggle for United?
After a shock 1-0 loss to Wolves, Manchester United fans are left questioning the performance of the team and where the problem lies, is it the managers fault or the players? The results since Ralf Rangnick became the manager of Manchester United have been good with...
A tour of Auschwitz.
As someone who takes a keen interest in history, I found the idea of visiting Auschwitz difficult. I wanted to see the reality of what happened, to understand the brutal truth of the holocaust. However, I also felt like such a place shouldn’t be packed with tourists’...
There will never be another sporting president like Dana White. Ever.
Ask any Mixed Martial Arts fan, casual or hardcore, who the most influential figure in the sports history is in any capacity. Some might say any of the fighters, Royce Gracie, Tito Ortiz, Anderson Silva, Jon Jones, to name a few. Others might turn the clock back...
Don’t Look Up: or, just don’t watch.
Don’t Look Up is the most recent hit from Netflix and is the newest film from Adam McKay (The Big Short, Anchorman) also having written, produced and directed the sci-fi comedy. IMDb describes the film to be “Two low-level astronomers [must] go on a giant media tour...