i'm gary caldwell and i'm a marine biologist here at newcastle university.ying to understand how the sea and animals relate and any toxins that take place there. pyridine is a very useful industrial chemical, something we call a solvent, which is very good at dissolving other chemicals. lots of industries use it, it is what we call a legacy pollutant, something that this historical and been used a long time back through industries like that stop. historically, there has been very poor control of effluent discharge, pollution basically being poured into the river. it was treated like an open sewer. we're trying to see how the crabs respond to pyridine, different amounts of pyridine, that's really important to understand, in their environment over three days. so it's trying to understand what the crabs do — do they die, don't they die, do we see signs of stress? hello, gentlemen. welcome to my building. this is where we will be doing the experiment. don't go berserk thinking you can catch it! we have the animals exposed to the chemicals, we gave him plenty of

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you know, newcastle university, where i went was a kind of hotbed of activism and we spent a lot of timeher up, you know, essentially. so it's a sort of that it has to be seen in that tone as a sort of idiotic letter written to poke fun at the labour club. and, you know, we're not dissimilar generations. you remember what it was like in the late eighties at the time. i'm sure they wrote just as rude letters about us. yes. sadly, we haven't got those. but you did then compare conservatives, a party of highly educated, intelligent, intelligent professionals with experience in the real world, with people who went to a whole bunch of social misfits, i think at the labour party. well, i mean it was quite robust that. it was a very robust time. we, student politics then was quite red in tooth and claw and there was a lot of winding each other up. but you didn't go straight into politics. i mean, you had a long career in local politics before you became a member of parliament. you were a businessman. you also counted, successful business, i think it's fair to say. well, it's still going so, whi

jeremy cooke, bbc news, newcastle. universitiesies uk, the body which represents 140 unis across the uk, says institutions should be obliged to contact relatives, carers or friends if they have "serious concerns" about a student's well—being, even without the student's permission. let's talk more about this with the vice president of liberation and equality at the national union of students, nehaal bajwa. thank you ever so much forjoining us. what is your reaction to this? we welcome this move to make policies clearer and more consistent across the country. students have been experiencing mental health crisis for at least a decade now. maybe longer and then we had the pandemic and the crisis now has made that a lot worse. he will think might feel like they are at breaking point. and then the research found recently that a third of students of the cost—of—living crisis was having a major impact on the mental health, so that is kind of on top of what was already going on. and on this advice, i guess specifically, i think we need to m

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