Dr Andrew Levan from the University of Warwick says these longer gamma-ray bursts are actually caused by really, really big stars going supernova.

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Operator Warwick Energy says the closest turbine will be about 7km from the southern tip of Walney Island.

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The average American home uses more than 11, 000 kWh of electricity a year, says Warwick Stirling, global director for Energy and Sustainability, Whirlpool Corporation.

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Archie Pitts, a professor of finance at Warwick Business School, says that this would be likely only if all managers had doctorates in applied mathematics.

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Warwick Bartlett, a gambling consultant, says it now makes up less than half of betting-shop profits, down from more than 90% two decades ago.

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In the 1930s Britain weathered the great depression better than many countries thanks partly to unprecedented house-building, much of it by local councils, says Nicholas Crafts of the University of Warwick.

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Sascha Becker, a professor at Britain's Warwick University who tests Weber's theories against real life, says the German thinker was both right and wrong.

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